human
Is it a boy?
gpt
A girl, answered the woman.
human
But strangers have just passed by, and I think they had a boy with them, if you can come up with them.
gpt
What is the use of hiding? They must have seen us. But as soon as they were well inside the dark hole, down came a spider from the mossy wall, summoned all her brood and her most distant relations in great haste, and they speedily spun a web over the opening, a web that was stronger than the iron railings in Solomon's temple, at the entrance to the Holy of Holies. Hardly was the weaving finished when the knaves came riding up. One said:
human
They crept into the hole in the rock.
gpt
What! shouted another,
human
That's true,
gpt
Daughter of Uriah! twice have you given your son life: once through pleasure, once through a lie. So his life will be a lie. He will breathe without living, and yet he will not be able to die!
human
Mercy!
gpt
He will see Jerusalem fall!
human
Woe is me!
gpt
He will see Rome burn!
human
Mercy!
gpt
He will see the old world perish. He will see the barbarians of the north prevail. He will wander restless, he will be ill-treated and despised everywhere, he will suffer the boundless despair of universal misery, and he will not be able to die. He will envy men their death anguish and their right to die. He will learn how they suck sweet poison from the loveliest blossoms, and how twelve-year-old boys kill themselves from sheer weariness. He is the son of lies and is banished into the kingdom of lies. He will lament over the torments of old age, and he will not be able to die. He will call those children whom Herod slew blessed, and gnash his teeth at the memory of the woman who saved him through a lie.
human
Oh, stop! shrieked the woman.
gpt
When will he be redeemed?
human
Perhaps when the eternal Truth is come.