human
What do you think of it?
gpt
The King of France and twice ten thousand men,--rode up a hill and then went down again,
human
What do you mean? Is there no climax?
gpt
Just that. You take the reader from protoplasm to paradise,--you lead him through labyrinths, mazes and mysteries, and leave him just where you started. If you cannot give the reader a ladder give him a straw,--but give him something.
human
What he offered then was not his belief, but a theory and a suggestion. The last chapter curiously enough was the part of the book receiving the highest praise from the critics, who with one accord said that he had struck a new and exalted note. A few years later he was wringing his hands because he could not re-write
gpt
Lords of the Ghostland
human
If I had not been so pig-headed,--so dense. Having the chance to turn out a masterpiece,--a thing that would have lived,--I passed it by. I saw only in a restricted circle, when had I but looked up, a limitless horizon of wonder and wisdom stretched before me.