human
You don't gather when the child's to be moved? he said, when I had done.
gpt
I---- This is an extraordinary business, Stornaway. I've lived a devil of a long time and I've done some pretty odd things and mixed with some pretty curious people and all that sort of thing, but I'm hanged if I've ever done anything like this before. What are we all up to? I feel I've been stampeded.
human
Well, neither of us is doing anything very active,
gpt
We're _countenancing_ it. If you sat by and watched a drunken man making pipe-lights out of five-pound notes.... _What_ have they decided to do? I don't understand them; I can't keep pace with them.