human
I could guarantee a big circulation. I have just become interested in one of the great transcontinental lines. He named the most picturesque of them--one that he, in fact, absolutely controlled.
gpt
Well, I want a story, yes, I guess a good love-story--a romance of reality you might call it--strung on that line. You take the idea?
human
Why, said Philip, half amused at the conceit and yet complimented by the recognition of his talent,
gpt
I don't know anything about railroads --how they are run, cost of building, prospect of traffic, engineering difficulties, all that--nothing whatever.
human
So much the better. It is a literary work I want, not a brag about the road or a description of its enterprise. You just take the line as your scene. Let the story run on that. The company, don't you see, must not in any way be suspected with having anything to do with it, no mention of its name as a company, no advertisement of the road on a fly-leaf or cover. Just your own story, pure and simple.
gpt
But, said Philip, more and more astonished at this unlooked-for expansion of the literary field,
human
I could not embark on an enterprise of such magnitude.