"If we could only have kept your medical knowledge!"
"Trouble is, being a doctor doesn't suit my personality," I said. I felt absurdly light-hearted. Where I sat, I could raise my head and study the panorama of blackish-green foothills which lay beyond Carthon, and search out the stone roadways, like a tiny white ribbon, which we could follow for the first stage of the trip. Forth evidently did not share my enthusiasm.
"You know, Jason, there is one real danger—"
"Do you think I care about danger? Or are you afraid I'll turn—foolhardy?"
"Not exactly. It's not a physical danger, Jason. It's an emotional—or rather an intellectual danger."
"Hell, don't you know any language but that psycho double-talk?"
"Let me finish, Jason. Jay Allison may have been repressed, overcontrolled, but you
