human
Now, why don't you do it?
gpt
I've a good mind to tell you. I have--I am writing something.
human
Yes?
gpt
Not that exactly. I couldn't, don't you see, betray and use my own relatives in that way.
human
Yes, I see that.
gpt
It isn't much. I cannot tell how it will come out. I tell you--I don't mean that I have any right to ask you to keep it as a secret of mine, but it is this way: If a writer gives away his imagination, his idea, before it is fixed in form on paper, he seems to let the air of all the world upon it and it disappears, and isn't quite his as it was before to grow in his own mind.
human
I can understand that,
gpt
Well--