human
You like my studio?
gpt
Like it? Why, it's stunning. It set up in me the queerest train of thought.
human
I, too, have been in a whimsical mood to-night. Fancy, unlike genius, is an infectious disease.
gpt
What is the peculiar form it assumed in your case?
human
I have been wondering whether all the things that environ us day by day are, in a measure, fashioning our thought-life. I sometimes think that even my little mandarin and this monkey-idol which, by the way, I brought from India, are exerting a mysterious but none the less real influence upon my work.
gpt
Great God! Ernest replied,
human
I have had the identical thought!
gpt
How very strange!
human
It is said tritely but truly, that great minds travel the same roads,
gpt
No, the older man subtly remarked,
human
And you attach serious importance to our fancy?
gpt
Why not?