human
Professor Huxley, he said, looking up.
gpt
I suppose I can buy that clergyman's sermons? And the Universal Genius who reels out the historical romances, Mr. Darwin? I shall get his works, too. And there's Mr. Ruskin, Mr. Robert Browning----
human
What are you going to do?
gpt
Well, Mr. Dunquerque, I am going to devote the next four days, from morning till night, to solid preparation for that evening. I shall go out right away, and I shall buy every darned book those great men have written; and if I sit up every night over the job, I'm bound to read every word.
human
Oh! said Jack.
gpt
Then I advise you to begin with Robert Browning.
human
The light and graceful verse that everybody can understand? I will, said Gilead Beck.
gpt
They shall not find me unacquainted with their poems. Mr. Dunquerque, for the Lord's sake don't tell them it was all crammed up in four days.
human
Not I. But--I say--you know, authors don't like to talk about their own books.
gpt
That's the modesty of real genius,