human
What did you mean it to represent?
gpt
Can you not guess?
human
Blind Love!
gpt
How did you know?
human
I see how the figure is creeping towards the will-o'-the-wisp, not heeding the stars sparkling above it. Look how it is sinking into the swamp, grandmother. It is horrible!
gpt
Blind Love,
human
Yes, said Lozoncyi,
gpt
With a bitter smile he added,
human
Well, the only comfort is that one can sometimes attain to the will-o'-the-wisp, though he can never reach the stars, however he may gaze up at them.
gpt
No, Erika exclaimed, indignantly,
human
What you say is very beautiful; but you do not understand.
gpt
Well, you certainly have turned that poor fellow's head, Countess Lenzdorff remarked, leaning back comfortably among the cushions of the gondola as she and Erika were being rowed home.
human
It will do him no harm: on the contrary, it is good for such young artists, too apt to be self-indulgent, to reach after the unattainable; it enlarges their minds. Then after a while she went on:
gpt
I wonder whom the letter that so provoked him was from. Perhaps from that blonde who was with him at Bayreuth.