human
I say you were right, came from him nervously.
gpt
Don't you hear?
human
Was I? Won't you tell me just what you mean?
gpt
Don't you know?
human
Really I don't think I do. You see, when I used that expression that day, I was speaking only of the editorship--
gpt
But I was speaking of a theory of life. After all, the two things seem to have been bound together rather closely--just as you said.
human
Oh, my theory was wholly rational--far more rational than yours; rationally it was perfect. It was a wholly logical recoil from the idleness, the lack of purpose, the slipshod self-indulgence under many names that I saw, and see, everywhere about me. I have work to do--serious work of large importance--and it seemed to me my duty to carry it through at all hazards. I need not add that it still seems so. Yet it was a life's work, already well along, and there was no need for me to pay an excessive price for mere speed. I elected to let everything go but intellect; I felt that I must do so; and in consequence, by the simplest sort of natural law, all the rest of me was shriveling up--had shriveled up, you will say. Yet I knew very well that my intellect was not the biggest part of me. I have always understood that.... Still, it seems that I required you to rediscover it for me in terms of everyday life....
gpt
No, no! she interrupted,
human
I didn't do that. Most of it you did yourself. The start, the first push--don't you know?--it came from Fifi.
gpt
Well, he said slowly,
human
A great deal else,