because the, this guy, denton mcgillis, the spoiled priest, he has what the boy does not have and that and education. he comes from the great world. and he has a kind of conference with ideas and even if he has use them superficially most of his life, and then in bad faith, but he does provide a kind of role model as a way of being a man to the boy that he has not had before. a quick piece of growing up. and alsojust, he has never discussed any ideas with anyone before. the yearning questing nature of the boy changes the man and some of the knowledge and experience changes the boy because there they are in the middle of nowhere in a great expanse of salt lakes, the greatest sky you are ever going to see in your life. you have perspective. you know, you just become dandruff on the side of the great beast of the earth. you have written before in books and novels about the power of the landscape, the power of the solitude you can find there, the nature of that place. it is clear that western australia just haunts you every hour of your life. even if you are a youth as i was when i first w