There is a proverb that goes something like this:
You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.
To this is often added a corollary:
You can lead a man to reason, but you cannot make him think.
Trying to get information into Goose, and understanding back out, is something like that. Except that it's not so much a case of leading her to reason, as dragging her by main force.
.... By her toenails.
Up a sheer cliff festooned with poison ivy.
With your teeth.
While dodging sharp rocks hurled down at you by hostile natives.
OK, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit about the hostile natives. But only a little bit.
