human
How do you feel after yesterday?
gpt
Very well indeed, said Laevsky, flushing.
human
It really was nothing much. . . .
gpt
Until yesterday I thought it was only ladies who had hysterics, and so at first I thought you had St. Vitus's dance.
human
How indelicate on his part! He knows quite well how unpleasant it is for me. . . .
gpt
Yes, it was a ridiculous performance, he said, still smiling.
human
I've been laughing over it the whole morning. What's so curious in an attack of hysterics is that you know it is absurd, and are laughing at it in your heart, and at the same time you sob. In our neurotic age we are the slaves of our nerves; they are our masters and do as they like with us. Civilisation has done us a bad turn in that way. . . .