human
Oh, here it is!
gpt
This is the last thing I've done. The words are taken from the sixteenth chapter of Revelation--'And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
human
This is the sea. 'The second angel poured out his vial upon the sea, and it became as the blood of a dead man.... The fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun, and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.... The sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great River Euphrates, and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the Kings of the East might be prepared.'
gpt
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked and they see his shame.
human
There, that gives you an idea of the sort of thing I do and care about doing. For, of course, I never will attempt any subject that doesn't thoroughly interest me.
gpt
Have you orchestrated it?
human
Yes. I've just finished the orchestration.
gpt
Surely you want to hear it given with voices and the orchestra? Frankly, I won't believe you if you say you don't.
human
I do.
gpt
The fact is I'm torn between the desire to hear my things and a mighty distaste for publicity.
human
If you'll allow me I'll just give you an idea of my Te Deum. And then I'll have done.
gpt
You are sincere in your music?
human
Yes.
gpt
I had two or three things done at the College concerts, Heath continued.
human
I don't think they were much liked. They were considered very clever technically. But what's that? Of course, one must conquer one's means or one can't express oneself at all.
gpt
And now you work quite alone?
human
Yes. I've got just a thousand a year of my own,
gpt
You are independent, then.
human
Yes. It isn't a great deal. Of course, I quite realize that the sort of thing I do could never bring in a penny of money. So I've no money temptation to resist in keeping quiet. There isn't a penny in my compositions. I know that.
gpt
If he were to get a mystical libretto and write an opera! But she did not say it. She felt that she would not care to suggest anything to Heath which might indicate a desire on her part to see him
human
In her ears were perpetually sounding the words,