human
Here is the daylight I promised you. Did you ever see it at midnight before?
gpt
How do you know it is midnight? It looks more like a red sunset to me,
human
The sun has just set, and is now rising. It did not go out of sight, but gradually turned about and began to mount again. That is how I know it is midnight.
gpt
Sunset presses so closely upon sunrise that night is crowded out altogether. Then this must be the land of the midnight sun that I have read about?
human
Yes, we are very near the Earth again, and this is far inside the arctic polar circle, where the sun never goes down during summer, but sets for a long night in the winter. I have kept far to the westward to avoid the magnetic pole, which might play havoc with my apparatus.
gpt
Then your little side-trip is----
human
To the North Pole, of course!