human
A most original man, exclaimed the Zankiwank;
gpt
A postman!--why?
human
Because he was always such a capital boy with his letters. He knew his alphabet long before he could spell, and now he knows every letter you can think of.
gpt
I don't see anything very original in that, said Willie.
human
There are only twenty-six letters in the English language that he can know!
gpt
Only twenty-six letters! Dear me, why millions of people are writing fresh letters every day, and he knows them all directly he sees them! I hope you will go to school some day and learn differently from that! Only twenty-six letters, repeated the Zankiwank in wonderment,
human
Then he cried suddenly,
gpt
How convenient it would be if everybody was his own Dictionary!
human
That is impossible. One cannot be a book.
gpt
Oh yes, nothing simpler. Let everybody choose his own words and give his own meaning to them!
human
What use would that be?
gpt
None whatever, because if you always had your own meaning you would not want anybody else to be meaning anything! What a lot of trouble that would save! I'll ask the Jackarandajam to make one for me--why, here he is!
human
I am so glad to see you all. I have just been suffering from a most severe attack of Inspiration.
gpt
How very inexplicable--I beg your pardon, moaned the Zankiwank.
human
It is a little difficult, but it is, I believe, a strictly proper word--though I do not pretend to know its meaning.
gpt
What is the use of saying things you don't mean?
human
None at all, that is the best of it, because we are always doing something without any reason.