human
Two hundred and three years! he said to himself over and over again, laughing stupidly.
gpt
Then I am two hundred and thirty-three years old! The oldest inhabitant. Surely they haven't reversed the tendency of our time and gone back to the rule of the oldest. My claims are indisputable. Mumble, mumble. I remember the Bulgarian atrocities as though it was yesterday. 'Tis a great age! Ha ha! He was surprised at first to hear himself laughing, and then laughed again deliberately and louder. Then he realised that he was behaving foolishly.
human
Steady, he said.
gpt
Steady!
human
This new world, he said.
gpt
I don't understand it. _Why_? ... But it is all _why_!
human
I suppose they can fly and do all sorts of things. Let me try and remember just how it began.