human
This is pleasant, I said.
gpt
Look at those bats, Brown.
human
Smith, he said,
gpt
A--a _minnow_--as big as a Pullman car?
human
Larger, I think.... It looks to me through the hydroscope, at this distance, exactly like a tiny, silvery minnow. It's half a mile down.... Swimming about.... I can see its eyes; they must be about ten feet in diameter. I can see its fins moving. And there are about a dozen others, much deeper, swimming around.... This is easily the most overwhelming contribution made to science since the discovery of the purple-spotted dingle-bock, _Bukkus dinglii_.... We've got to catch one of those gigantic fish!
gpt
How? I gasped.
human
How are we going to catch a minnow as large as a sleeping car?
gpt
I don't know, but we've got to do it. We've got to manage it, somehow.
human
It would require a steel cable to hold such a fish and a donkey engine to reel him in! And what about a hook? And if we had hook, line, steam-winch, and everything else, _what_ about bait?