human
Isn't it the strange thing how from all the ruck, all the thousands, millions of humankind, explorers are so few? Why, you may name all the great ones on the fingers of one hand.
gpt
So few as that?
human
Cabot, Columbus, Magellan, maybe Drake, maybe the both hands. And all the South Pacific lies there unseen, untraveled--nothing but a waste of water? I'll not believe that, when there's room for a continent greater than this one, or a thousand islands larger than mine own motherland.
gpt
I suppose, Mr. Shawn, some day every least corner of the world will be explored.
human
Ha?... Not in my time nor yours. Now that troubles me, Beneen. It's the clear plain thing what you say, but d'you know I never had the thought myself? No more horizons--O the sad earth!... Man dear, I'm wishing you'd not said that.
gpt
I suppose they who live in that day will be otherwise concerned.
human
Most are now, the way explorers are few....