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6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ", cracking reports from target-practice, fusillades at the"
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Horrible! exclaimed Grace, half-stumbling over the tent-ropes that entangled the ground."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must get out of this."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There he is!"
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think he has seen us,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can't get out, now, Grace lamented."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he hasn't seen us--yet. But that's the only place of--of escape--and he keeps looking so curiously--he must have been ... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'd better separate, Gregory hoarsely whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll meet at the station."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. If he sees us, what would be the use? Anyway, he'll have to know to-morrow...everybody will know--to-_morrow_!... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come in, she cried, delighted at sight of his handsome smiling face --he had been smiling most of the time during his drive from Simmtown with Robert Clinton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here I sit by the window, where sometimes I imagine I hear a faint far-away s... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fran! he cried reproachfully as he reached her side."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How have you the heart to run away from me after I've been lost for weeks? Nobody knew I'd ever be found."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When you disappeared, you left m... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to talk to you, Fran, talk and talk, oh, just about all the long night through! Come, let me take you back home--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Home? Me? Ridiculous! But I'll tell you the best place that ever was, for the kind of talking you and I want to do ... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go, Fran, he exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll wait for you as long as I must, even if it's the eternity of nine-thirty; and I'd go anywhere in the world to meet you, even to the den of the Snake-Eater."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I can't promise to talk to you as a friend, when we meet--I mean, _just_ as a friend."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I only ask you to treat me as well, she said with assumed humility,"
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Got back to town again, hey? said Simon. That was enough about Abbott; Simon passed at once to a more interesting theme:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Taken in the Lion Show, yet?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm just waiting for nine-thirty....I hav... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All goes well, he said, pressing Grace's hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nobody will find out that we have been in here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Watch for Mr. Clinton, Grace counseled cautiously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That isn't La Gonizetti. Wonder what this means? La Gonizetti is much more of a woman than this one, and she doesn't wear a mask, or much of anything else. La Gonizetti doesn't care who sees _her_. Why, this is nothing but a mere--I tell you now, if she ain't on to her job, I me... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anyway, no amateur would rub up against those beasts, so I guess it's all right. They ain't but two lions; bill says ten; man that wrote the bill was the other eight, I reckon. The show-girl was fastened in the central cage. The clowns raised the inner doors, and the lions shot ... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I met Fran on the street, murmured Abbott, as he watched, unblinkingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't know, Simon said, discouragingly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now they're going to see- saw. The black-maned one is the hardest to manage. I ... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's interesting all the way through. A fellow never knows what's going to happen. 'Tain't as if you was watching clowns, knowing what the joke's to be before they say it. To my mind, lions are more like men than clowns are."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Samson . Fr... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Simon Jefferson announced, gleefully,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But this isn't La Gonizetti,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you've said something. That's right. But it looks like she's game--she'll try it--we'd better stand a little farthe... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That you, Clinton? Simon's greeting was tense with enjoyment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Got here for the best of it, didn't you! Seems to me I saw Gregory somewhere not long ago, but I wasn't thinking about him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hercu... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Up, Samson, up Samson, UP!"
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Back to your place, Hercules. Hercules-- back to your place!"
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Up, Samson, up, Samson--UP!"
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, save me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sit down!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down, all of you, and remain absolutely motionless, or I am lost."
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, there, Gregory whispered in her ear, soothingly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whoever moves, or speaks, or cries aloud, will be my murderer. I have only one hope left, and I'm going to try it now. I ask you people out there to give me just this one chance fo... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't play. He can tell you're frightened."
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grace! Gregory whispered in horror,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's Fran, he mumbled,"
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the hand of God!"
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Samson!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Samson._ Up, Samson, up, Samson--UP!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go to your place, Hercules!"
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! she cried, with vibrating earnestness,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "May we move?"
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, I'm a Rough-Rider!"
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look, look! Simon Jefferson suddenly grasped Robert Clinton's hand, and pointed toward the tent-roof."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There they are!"
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not so fast! Grace cautioned Gregory."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must wait up here till the very last--don't you see Mr. Clinton? And Simon Jefferson is now pointing us out. We can't go down that way--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gregory harsh... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the hand of God,"
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I love you all. You helped me do it. I should certainly have been mangled but for you perfect heroes. Yes, thank you.... Yes, I feel fine....And, oh, men and women, I could just _feel_ your spirits holding mine up till I was so high--I was in the clouds. That's what subdued Sams... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's already nine o'clock, he said with singular composure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't forget nine-thirty."
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fran! cried Gregory, thrusting forth his arms to take her hands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fran! Even now, the bars divide us. But oh, I am so glad, so glad-- and God answered my prayer and saved you, Fran--_my daughter!"
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here I am, she panted, shooting a quizzical glance at his face,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Down there in the Den?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, she returned,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nor lion-cages? inquired Abbott, still insc... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's take a ride, she said, a little tremulously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Won't need tickets. Bill, stop the wheel; I want to go right up. This is a friendof mine--Mr. Ashton. And Abbott, this is an older friend than you--Mr. Bill Smookins."
}
] |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Awful pore, sense Fran lef' the show,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Smookins knew my mother--didn't you, Bill? He was awful good to me when I was a kid. Mr. Smookins was a Human Nymph in those days, and he smoked and talked, he did, right down under the water--r... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After all, said Fran, speaking somewhat indistinctly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think I know."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad--for I could never tell you. Real love is like real religion--you can't talk about it. Makes you want to joke, e... |
6057 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-by, she called, gaily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The world is good enough for me!"
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes? Yes?"
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think it's coming down very close to here, Wang concluded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You call the authorities and let them know that one of the aircraft is in trouble. I'll see if I can be of any help here. I'll call you back later."
},
{
"from": "huma... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How are the radiation detectors behaving there, Grandfather?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One moment. I shall see. There was a silence. Then:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No unusual activity, young Wan... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Halloo, there! he called out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you hurt?"
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My God,"
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Real cute, he said, grinning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wasn't expecting that one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Bart, maybe we've proved our point. What do you think, Colonel?"
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Incredible, he said gently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Absolutely incredible. Then he looked at the other man, a lean civilian with mild blue eyes a shade lighter than his own."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, Dr. Farnsworth, I'm convinced.... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I can't dispose of the Nipe, Stanton said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe you're right, he said at last. His voice was firm with inner conviction. He shot a glance at Farnsworth."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How about the second man?"
}... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can have some privacy here, Dr. Farnsworth said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "None of the rest of the staff will come in until we're through."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You seem to think secrecy's important all of a sudden."
},
{
"from"... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, we'll begin this way. Mr. Stanton, granted that you've been through five years of hell--but how closely have you stayed in touch with the Nipe situation?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As best I could through news bulletins and information that your office... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Accurate but incomplete, he said quietly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must have made some guesses. He looked from Bart Stanton to Dr. Farnsworth."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd like to hear them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Which is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We know where he is. We've known for six years."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And there's nothing we can do? Nothing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm afraid not. Not yet. There are research tea... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And that's when he said he'd seen the boys and said we ought to name them Ike and Mike."
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'd talked about it before, you know--as soon as the obstetrician found out that I was going to have twins. And Jim ... Jim said that we shouldn't name them alike unless they were identical twins or mirror twins. If they were fraternal twins, we'd just name them as if they'd be... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But these boys are no longer identical. One is normal, healthy, and lively. The other is ... well, as you have seen, he is slow, sluggish, and badly co-ordinated. That condition may improve with time, but, until we know more about such damage than we do now, he will be an invali... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In both these situations, there is a positive feedback which constantly worsens the situation. It requires a great deal of careful observation and careful application of the proper educational stimuli to keep the situation from developing toward either extreme. You'll need exper... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Speed the tape up to normal, said Colonel Mannheim to the man who was operating the machine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If there's anything Mr. Stanton wants to look at more closely, we can run it through again."
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's he doing?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's got a screwdriver that he's modified to give it a head with an L-shaped cross-section, and he's wiggling it around inside that hole in the box. But what he's doing is a secret between God and the Nipe at this point... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We had a hard time getting the first cameras in there, the colonel was saying."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's why we missed some of the early stages of his work. There! Look at that!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That attachment he's making?"
... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now, the colonel said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll turn you over to the psychology department. They'll be able to give you a great deal more information on the Nipe than I can."
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Larry, come here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it, hon?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Stanton boys. Come look."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who are the Stanton boys, and why should I come look?"
},
{
"from": "human",... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And then, the kid in the chair has to sit there and watch his brother play basketball or jai alai, while he can't do anything himself. Like I say, kind of rough on both of them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I suppose it must be. More coffee?"
},
{
"fro... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fritz, what--"
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's right there, where those tunnels come together."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just what was the purpose of those tunnels?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They were for rail transportation, said the colonel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two years after he arrived, the Nipe was almost caught. He had managed, somehow--we're not sure yet exactly how--to get here from Asia. According to the psychologists who have been studying him, he apparently does not believe that human beings are any more than trained animals; ... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It wasn't until two years later, after exhaustive analysis of the pattern of his raids had given us something to work with, that we decided that he must have found an opening into one of the tunnels up here in the game preserve. He gestured again at the map."
},
{
"from"... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In spite of his high rate of metabolism, the Nipe can store a tremendous amount of oxygen in his body, and can stay underwater for as long as half an hour without breathing apparatus--if he conserves his energy. When he's wearing his scuba apparatus, he's practically a self-cont... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At that time, the colonel went on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See this?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our spy,"
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's how we found the Nipe, Colonel Mannheim said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He shrugged wryly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid the underwater problem still has us stumped. We can't get the carrier wave for the remote-control impulses t... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aren't there ways of detecting objects underwater?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said the colonel,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But they all require beamed energy of some kind to be reflected from the object, and we don't dare use anything like ... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure. Nothing to it. All I have to do is take into account everything that's known about the Nipe and make allowances for everything that's not known. Then he smiled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not, he added,"
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The operation required a carefully-planned, one-man infiltration of their hideout, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Martin was the man for the job."
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What was the name of that fellow I met at Eddie's party? Can't remember it for the life of me. ) At other times, a memory may lay dormant and unremembered, leaving no apparent gap, until a tag of some kind brings it up. ("
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That girl with... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You understand, Mrs. Stanton, said the psychiatrist,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sorry, Doctor, said Mrs. Stanton. Her manner betrayed weariness and pain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was so--so difficult. Martin could never talk very well, ... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've tried to do my best for Martin, Mrs. Stanton went on unhappily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And so has Bart. When they were younger, Bart used to take him out all the time. They went everywhere together. Of course, I don't expect Bart to do that so much any m... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't understand, said Mrs. Stanton, breaking into sudden tears."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't understand why Martin should behave this way! Why should he just sit there with his eyes closed and ignore us both?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One miss,"
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was good, Bart, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One miss,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yeah. Your timing was a shade off there, I guess. But you ran a full minute over your previous record."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You r... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O.K., Bart; let's hit the steam box."
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did I ever tell you what I don't like about that machine?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nope. Didn't know you had any gripe. What is it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't gloat after you beat it. You can't walk over and pat it on the shoulder an... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure, Stanton said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A handicap. What kind of handicap do you want on a handball game with me?"
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We wouldn't even be playing the same game,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know, he said puzzledly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure I'm bitter, Stanton said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All I get is exercise. All the fun has gone o... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had to come tell you. The sheer, utter beauty of it is too much to contain. Three times in a row was almost absolute, Bart; the probability that our hypothesis is correct was computed as straight nines to seven decimals. But now! The fourth time! Straight nines to _twelve_ dec... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have been able to predict the behavior of the Nipe! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For the fourth time in succession!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great. But how does that fit in with that rule you once told me about? You know, the one abo... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But an animal could not do otherwise, could it? Only as it pleases. And it could not please to behave as something it is not, could it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Draw me a picture,"
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By observing an organism's reactions, one can begin to see a pattern. If you tell me that you put an armful of hay into a certain animal's enclosure, and that the animal trotted over, ate the hay, and brayed, I can tell you with reasonable certainty that the animal has long ears... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very good. Then let us look at the Nipe race, wherever it was spawned in this universe. Let us look at their race a long time back--when they first became _Nipe sapiens_. Back when they first developed a true language. Each child, as it is born or hatched or budded--whatever it ... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is also a good way to kill Nipes. Eh?"
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What does he tell his children? Why, first he tells them how tigers are killed. Then he warns them that there is an animal that looks _just like_ a tiger, but is _not_ a tiger. One should not make the mistake of thinking it _is_ a tiger or one will get badly hurt. Since the only... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Molly O'Grady and the Colonel's lady are sisters under the skin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He would answer to Hi! or to any loud cry, Such as Fry me! or Fritter my wig!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Though they know not why, Or for what they give, Still, the few must die, That the many may live."
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O.K., Bart, the P.T. said, giving Stanton a final slap,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right. Gimme my clothes."
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! About the ritual-taboo culture of the Nipe! Yes. Sit down. Yes. So. Do you find it impossible that a high technology could be present in such a system?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. I've been thinking about it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, he would learn, yes. But, once a given theory proved workable, how resistant he would be to a new theory. How long--how _incredibly_ long--it would take such a race to achieve the technology the Nipe now has!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hundreds of thousands o... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My own ancestors, not too far back, performed a ritual suicide by disemboweling themselves with a sharp knife. Across the abdomen--so!--and up into the heart--so! It was considered very bad form to die or faint before the job was done. Nearby, a relative or close friend stood wi... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ha! Says the Nipe to himself. These animals must be ruled over by Real People. It is the only explanation. Not so?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Colonel Mannheim mentioned that. Are you implying that the Nipe thinks that there are other Nipes around, running the wor... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems to me that you're building an awfully involved theory out of pretty flimsy stuff,"
}
] |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why? To tell the Real People that he is a gentleman!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I would think, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Possibly he would, if he could read them. Did I not say he was illiterate?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But none of these requires the complexity of a written language. I dare say our use of it is quite baffling to him. And if he thinks of symbols as being unable to convey much information, then he might not be able to learn to read at all. You see?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As I said, it is not proof."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. But the whole thing makes for some very interesting speculation, doesn't it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very interesting indeed. Yoritomo folded his hands in his lap, smiled seraphically... |
30742 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Barbell, said a voice near his ear,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Barhop here. Do you read?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Read you, Barhop."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Move out, then. You've got a long stroll to go."
}
] |
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