...

[He looks reluctant to say.]

I dunno if they would allow me to tell people...it was real personal to them.

[The book is...a play. The scene he was reading features a child Tyltyl, staring at a party from across the street from his paltry house, admiring the forest outside his window and saying how beautiful it is. Nothing...really disagreeable?]

Ask before takin' things first, will ya?