3. Why is Montag mesmerized by the conversation he overhears as he hides in the woods, observing the hobos around the fire?

Montag is mesmerized by the knowledge of the men standing around the fire.

And then the voices began and they were talking, and he could hear nothing of what the voices said, but the sound rose and fell quietly and the voices were turning the world over and looking at it; the voices knew the land and the trees and the city which lay down the track by the river. The voices talked of everything, there was nothing they could not talk about, he knew from the very cadence and motion and continual stir of curiosity and wonder in them.