human
There's your medicine, Doe. And if you don't take it--well, it may be the long good-by for yours before the flowers bloom again.
gpt
How do you mean, Mr. Klinker--there is my medicine?
human
I mean, you need half an hour to an hour's hardest kind of work right here every day, reg'lar as meals.
gpt
No doubt that would be beneficial--in a sense, but I cannot afford to take the time from My Book--
human
That's where you got it dead wrong. You can't afford not to take the time. Any doctor'll tell you the same as me, that you'll never finish your book at all at the clip you're hitting now. You'll go with nervous prostration, and it'll wipe you out like a fly. Why, Doc, said Klinker, impressively,
gpt
One important fact escapes you, Mr. Klinker. I shall never let matters progress so far. When I feel my health giving way--
human
Needn't finish--heard it all before. They think they're going to stop in time, but they never do. Old prostration catches 'em first every crack. You think an hour a day exercise would be kind of a waste, ain't that right? Kind of a dead loss off'n your book and studies?
gpt
I certainly do feel--
human
Well, you're wrong. Listen here. Don't you feel some days as if mebbe you could do better writing and harder writing if only you didn't feel so mean?
gpt
Well ... I will frankly confess that sometimes--
human
Didn't I know it! Do you know what, Doc? If you knocked out a little time for reg'lar exercise, you'd find when bedtime came, that you'd done better work than you ever did before.
gpt
I'll put it to you as a promise, said Klinker, eyeing him earnestly.
human
One hour a day exercise, and you do more work in twenty-four hours than you're doing now, besides feelin' one hundred per cent better all the time.
gpt
Try it for only a month,
human
I'll help you--glad to do it--I need the drill myself. Gimme an hour a day for just a month, and I'll bet you the drinks you wouldn't quit after that for a hundred dollars.