human
But _why_ do so many die after trifling minor surgery? Don't we all suffer small cuts and bruises repeatedly and take no harm by it?
gpt
We don't know. Doctors despise surgery; send 'em to the filthy barber surgeons, and they die. I no longer send anyone to the barbers, Reuben. If surgery can't be avoided I stumble through it myself, trying to follow the methods you'll read in that book of Paré's, with these grim little tools--that's splendid steel, by the way, I care for 'em like an old housewife--and I've lost very few under the knife, but I can't tell you why. Why, maybe they're so bemused by the wig that they stay alive so to have another look at it....
human
You see, Ben, not to put too sharp a point on it when likely it was dull---- No no! Not that way, seeing he may have truly loved her.
gpt
You see, Ben, doubtless because their fortunes went down with ours, Captain Jenks being lost or presumed lost--why, she married. Some ancient December blossom --revise!--