human
[1] Then the child always answers in one word. For some mysterious reason, no more lengthy reply is ever given. Often the answer is so enigmatic that some priest or fortune-teller must be asked to interpret it. For instance, yesterday, the little son of a copper-smith living near us answered only
gpt
Umé to the magical question. Now umé might mean a plum-flower, a plum, or a girl's name,--
human
Flower-of-the-Plum. Could it mean that the boy remembered having been a girl? Or that he had been a plum-tree?
gpt
Souls of men do not enter plum-trees,