human
It's so Christian,
gpt
Oh, but is it?
human
A defeated man being borne aloft? I call it the very essence of Christianity. I can see submission and renunciation and other objectionable virtues in every line of it.
gpt
Go after it, Parkman, laughed Karl.
human
Ernestine and I all but came to blows over it. I wanted her to buy a Napoleon instead. I tell her there is no glory in defeat.
gpt
I don't think of it as the glory of defeat, said Ernestine.
human
I think of it as the glory of the conquered.
gpt
But even so, Ernestine, said Georgia, who had been looking it over carefully,
human
she laughed.
gpt
Sometimes the defeated team really does better work than the winners--but wouldn't we rather our fellows would win on a fluke than go down to defeat putting up a good, steady fight? The thing is to _get there!_
human
In football or in life, laughed Karl.
gpt
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to _us._