human
Oh, said Paresi.
gpt
That.... I thought you were doing something constructive.
human
I am, he said.
gpt
I am.
human
Well?
gpt
Just wondering why.
human
Why I'm going to get loopin', stoopin' drunk? I'll tell you why, head-shrinker. Because I want to, that's why. Because I like it. I'm doing something I like because I like it. I'm not doing it because of the inversion of this concealed repression as expressed in the involuted feelings my childhood developed in my attitude toward the sex-life of beavers, see, couch-catechizer old boy? I like it and that's why.
gpt
I knew a man who went to bed with old shoes because he liked it,
human
Nothing can change you, can it, Nick?
gpt
I can change, he whispered.
human
Ives is gone. Give me the bottle.
gpt
said the Captain.
human
Go pick up the hallucination, Nicky-boy.
gpt
Not my hallucination, said Paresi.
human
Pick it up yourself.
gpt
Sure,