Your theories reminded me of this:
https://genius.com/Good-will-hunting-good-will-hunting-park-bench-scene-annotated
SEAN: So if I asked you about art you’d probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo? You know a lot about him. Life’s work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? But I bet you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You’ve never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. Seen that.
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Personally, I don’t give a ***** about all that, because you know what? I can’t learn anything from you I can’t read in some *****in’ book. Unless you wanna talk about you, who you are. And I’m fascinated. I’m in. But you don’t wanna do that, do you, sport? You’re terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.