conversations.from: system
conversations.value: "As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early ‘forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it."
  -Vladimir Nabokov
  
  Every month, the members of the Bells, Balls, and Bulls Writing Club meet at the local Hooters to write fiction together.
  
  They are disciplined. They are serious. They have important things to say about their feelings, but not too directly.
  
  They are White Male Writers, and they are determined to produce damned good writing.
  
  Until, one fateful Wings Night, an uninvited guest attends their meeting...
  
  ***
  
  This story began as a metafiction satire inspired by reading too much Hemingway. It was in the spirit of affectionate teasing for all of those male writers who take themselves too seriously and want to be the next Hemingway / Hunter Thompson / Charles Bukowski.
  
  Then, we decided to do something different. We are adults and these are our decisions.
  
  Posts will be limited to 150 words maximum, because real men hate words and use as few as possible.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Now that you're done working, you have time to write the stories you've gathered for years.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Appraisal
  
  Suggested Weakness: Delicate
conversations.prefix: Retiree:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Well-read and pedantic. Every other sentence out of your mouth is a literary quotation.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Lore
  
  Suggested Weakness: Slow
conversations.prefix: Literature Professor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If a man doesn't know how to hunt or fish, he isn't really a man.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Sciences
  
  Suggested Weakness: Limited
conversations.prefix: Outdoorsman:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Intoxication is your muse, in all of its mind-bending forms.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Medicine
  
  Suggested Weakness: Oath
conversations.prefix: Gonzo:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're done interviewing local politicians. It's time that you were able to write in your own voice.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: The Mind
  
  Suggested Weakness: Judgmental
conversations.prefix: Journalist:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You blend archaeological knowledge with wilderness survival and digging techniques.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Survival
  
  Suggested Weakness: Reckless
conversations.prefix: Field Archaeologist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your shelves are filled with writing manuals that you've never read and journals that you've never filled. This is your chance to get serious.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Resources
  
  Suggested Weakness: Naive
conversations.prefix: Dilettante:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re at the beginning of an exciting career... you hope.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Vital Youth
  
  Suggested Weakness: Impatient
conversations.prefix: Graduate Student:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your military training makes you valuable the world over. It’s a dangerous place, this planet.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Hardy
  
  Suggested Weakness: Heartless
conversations.prefix: Soldier of Fortune:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You hit it big once, but now you're largely forgotten. You're determined to see your name back on the bestseller's list.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Mysticism
  
  Suggested Weakness: Bookish
conversations.prefix: One Hit Wonder:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re sharp, perceptive, and quick—capable of appraising situations as well as objects.
conversations.prefix: Appraisal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your intellect is formidable and your knowledge spans many cultures and histories.
conversations.prefix: Lore:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have a calculating mind that prizes reason and calm precision above all.
conversations.prefix: Sciences:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re adept at medicine, from saving lives to identifying the telling marks of death.
conversations.prefix: Medicine:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The human mind is a remarkable device and you understand how it works.
conversations.prefix: The Mind:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve survived the wilderness, bandits, and wolves in your search for literary treasures.
conversations.prefix: Survival:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re well equipped with quality tools, society contacts, and funds.
conversations.prefix: Resources:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You. You're good, you. You don't have trouble making friends and influencing people.
conversations.prefix: Stand-Up Guy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re a rugged, leathery sort. You could stay up writing for 36 hours and keep going.
conversations.prefix: Hardy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You hear your characters' voices in your head. It does wonders for your motivation.
conversations.prefix: The voices are real:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re delicate of touch, of demeanor, and of constitution. Don't let the guys know you're thin-skinned.
conversations.prefix: Delicate:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your mind returns to the same thought over and over. You can't seem to move on.
conversations.prefix: Fixated:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Outside your areas of expertise, you’re easily lost.
conversations.prefix: Limited:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve sworn an oath to save lives, avoid violence, and heal the sick.
conversations.prefix: Oath:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your judgmental attitude causes you troubles. If only others would try harder to measure up.
conversations.prefix: Judgmental:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have a lot to prove, and other people know it.
conversations.prefix: Insecure:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A bit gullible and trusting of the wrong sorts, perhaps, but you mean well.
conversations.prefix: Naive:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You don’t wait around well. You want to act first and think about it later maybe.
conversations.prefix: Impatient:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The years have left you wary and callous, unwilling to risk your heart again.
conversations.prefix: Heartless:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Um... could you rephrase that?
conversations.prefix: Inarticulate:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your muse is an actual entity that goads, cajoles, and threatens you into writing more. Give it what it wants.
conversations.prefix: Appease the Voices:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve stalked or been stalked by the most dangerous game. Time for a new challenge.
conversations.prefix: Hunt Something New:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Stop waffling and wondering and find worthy material for your thesis.
conversations.prefix: Find Worthy Material for a Dissertation:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It’s not about inheritance, it’s about respect.
conversations.prefix: Show Your Father You’re Worthy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Push someone—perhaps yourself!—beyond the limits of reason and then study what happens.
conversations.prefix: Push A Mind Beyond Its Limits:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It’s not enough anymore to believe you’re the best. Put these amateurs in their place.
conversations.prefix: Show Them Your Work is Sound:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If you can retrieve a never-before-seen treasure, your career will be revitalized.
conversations.prefix: Bring Back A Groundbreaking Artifact:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Maybe this work isn’t worth your life? Just get home alive.
conversations.prefix: Get Home Alive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Human morals are a human construction. Your work will push through these paltry boundaries into radical new territory.
conversations.prefix: Nothing Is Forbidden:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Love may be an earthly concern, but it’s real and it matters.
conversations.prefix: Matters of Love:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Read words that have gone unread for generations.
conversations.prefix: Deciphering:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Endure and survive the threats of the wild.
conversations.prefix: Survive the Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Prevent harm from coming to a colleague you admire or cherish.
conversations.prefix: Protect Someone:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Rescue someone in peril, perhaps bringing them back from the brink of death.
conversations.prefix: Save A Life in Danger:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Set foot in a new or ancient place before someone else can despoil it.
conversations.prefix: Be The First:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Protect the dig site from harm.
conversations.prefix: Protect the Dig Site:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get word out about what’s happening at the dig site.
conversations.prefix: Warn the World:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The best protections against the harsh realities of the world are friendship and allies.
conversations.prefix: Make A Friend:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get a photo that no one would believe if it weren’t true.
conversations.prefix: Photographic Evidence:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Show someone that you’re not to be trifled with.
conversations.prefix: Right Might:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This place has free Wifi, right? Research your setting for inspiration.
conversations.prefix: A Smartphone:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A collection of newspaper clippings, sketches, and geographical survey maps.
conversations.prefix: Jameson’s Portfolio on the Peru Dig:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: At least $1,000 dollars American in bright green bills.
conversations.prefix: A Stack of Cold, Hard Cash:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: by Brother Francisco Castillo. Contains occult secrets about pre-Columbian South America.
conversations.prefix: The Heavens Below:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A six-shot snub-nosed pistol.
conversations.prefix: Revolver:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A long, double-barreled shotgun with a wood stock.
conversations.prefix: Shotgun:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Ammo for a gun.
conversations.prefix: Ammunition:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: One stick of dynamite with a long fuse.
conversations.prefix: Dynamite:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Shovels, brushes, and picks suitable for quick or fine-detail work.
conversations.prefix: Digging Equipment:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A high-quality camera with tripod.
conversations.prefix: A Fine Camera:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: All dark hardwoods and plush chairs with a penthouse view.
conversations.prefix: Dr. Jameson’s Office:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The sort of place with marble pillars and a hedge maze.
conversations.prefix: The Aveline Estate:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The plane rattles and dips in tough turbulence. It’s more for cargo than passengers.
conversations.prefix: Aboard Butcher’s Plane:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The city’s best-hidden jazz secret is this hole-in-the-wall club, open just twice a week.
conversations.prefix: The Blue Star Nightclub:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The table is buried under layers of maps and sketches and newspaper clippings.
conversations.prefix: Suburban Dining Room:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A quaint, humid little village on the road leading to the dig site.
conversations.prefix: A Remote Peruvian Village:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: No way a truck could make it across that. Only foot traffic could cross this rickety thing.
conversations.prefix: Swaying Rope Bridge:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The dig site resembles, at first, just an assortment of low, stone walls and carved pits.
conversations.prefix: The Abandoned Dig Site:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: This sort of jungle can swallow up a traveler with ease and never release its secrets.
conversations.prefix: Deep Jungle:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A circle of sunlight through the well shaft above reveals a vast, finely carved chamber...
conversations.prefix: Far Beneath the Dig:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Avoid embarrassing yourself in flight.
conversations.prefix: Turbulence:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Make a first impression on the locals that won’t get you in trouble later.
conversations.prefix: First Impressions:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get across the rope bridge with all your equipment intact.
conversations.prefix: Cross the Rope Bridge:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The dig site fills with water and mud. Protect the artifacts!
conversations.prefix: Rains From A Clear Night Sky:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The track through the jungle is perilous and difficult to follow. Don’t lose your way.
conversations.prefix: Find Your Way:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: These strange passages beneath the earth make little sense. Will you ever see the sky again?
conversations.prefix: Lost Beneath:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Who can decipher these ancient markings?
conversations.prefix: Ancient Writings:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone from afar is taking shots at you!
conversations.prefix: Gunfire!:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: It is both there and not there, part tentacle and part grasping mouth. Understand it? Or flee?
conversations.prefix: The Impossible Creature:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Are you dreaming or is this real?
conversations.prefix: The Vision:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dr. Jameson isn’t brave enough to lead expeditions so he funds others’ trips into the unknown.
conversations.prefix: Dr. Jeremiah Jameson:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The widow of Michael Aveline, who was killed on an expedition of Jameson’s. She wants revenge.
conversations.prefix: Diane Aveline:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: One of the world’s great pilots and photographers.
conversations.prefix: Caroline Butcher:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A soldier of fortune hired to protect Dr. Jameson’s investments.
conversations.prefix: Walter Corrigan:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A locally renowned jazz musician and expert on folklore of the Americas.
conversations.prefix: Leonard Crenshaw:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A young driver, fixer, and guide in Peru. He’s been to the dig site Jameson’s curious about.
conversations.prefix: Jorge Quispe:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tall and shadowy in a fedora and trench coat. Who is this gravel-voiced stranger?
conversations.prefix: Mysterious Interloper:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: This drug-addled cultist is ready to give his life—or yours—to please his monstrous god.
conversations.prefix: Mad Cultist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Tentacles and feathery antennae probe out from a shadowy mass at the heart of this beast!
conversations.prefix: Tentacular Beast:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Wider-winged than a condor, with a bone-chilling cry and gleaming teeth.
conversations.prefix: Hellish Flying Monstrosity:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Sports bar & grill chain famous for hot wings served by scantily clad waitresses. Your writing has to compete with the local scenery for attention. Better make it good.
conversations.prefix: Hooters:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re at the beginning of an exciting career... you hope.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Vital Youth
  
  Suggested Weakness: Impatient
conversations.prefix: Graduate Student:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You ache to make a mark on the world, to amount to something special.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Resources
  
  Suggested Weakness: Naive
conversations.prefix: Dilettante:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You teach archaeology at a prestigious New England college and are widely published.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Lore
  
  Suggested Weakness: Slow
conversations.prefix: Archaeology Professor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re an expert on antiquities and artifacts, known world-wide for your skills.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Appraisal
  
  Suggested Weakness: Delicate
conversations.prefix: Antiquarian:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your shelves are filled with writing manuals that you've never read and journals that you've never filled. This is your chance to get serious.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Resources
  
  Suggested Weakness: Naive
conversations.prefix: Dilettante:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your knowledge of the human body and its care is much celebrated.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Medicine
  
  Suggested Weakness: Oath
conversations.prefix: Medical Doctor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You stand at the forefront of “alternative physics”—where science meets mysticism.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Sciences
  
  Suggested Weakness: Limited
conversations.prefix: Physics Professor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The human mind is your purview—you understand how it works and when it doesn’t.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: The Mind
  
  Suggested Weakness: Judgmental
conversations.prefix: Psychologist:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’ve studied and written widely on matters of mysticism and folklore. Your fans are many.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Mysticism
  
  Suggested Weakness: Bookish
conversations.prefix: Occult Author:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You know the ways of folklore and magic, some of it so much hogwash... some of it not.
conversations.prefix: Mysticism:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re a rugged, leathery sort. You’re hard to kill and ready to work through pain.
conversations.prefix: Hardy:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’ve survived the wilderness, bandits, and wolves in your search for ancient treasures.
conversations.prefix: Survival:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re energetic, athletic, and hale—ready for adventure!
conversations.prefix: Vital Youth:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You’re no athlete. Maybe you’re doughy or awkward or frail but you’re sure no athlete.
conversations.prefix: Bookish:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your mind may be sharp but your body is slow to keep up.
conversations.prefix: Slow:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You sometimes take chances that put you or others at risk.
conversations.prefix: Reckless:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You’re delicate of touch, of demeanor, and of constitution.
conversations.prefix: Delicate:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: People are always telling you to lighten up. 
conversations.prefix: No Sense of Humor:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Human morals are a human construction. Knowledge of the infinite is more valuable.
conversations.prefix: Nothing Is Forbidden:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Stop waffling and wondering and find out what you believe to be true about the world.
conversations.prefix: Find Worthy Material for a Dissertation:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: It’s not enough anymore to believe you’re right. Show them you’re right.
conversations.prefix: Show Them Your Work is Sound:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Learning is power, whether you share it or not.
conversations.prefix: Learn an Eldritch Secret:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You were born to be a writer. Rise to the ranks of the greats.
conversations.prefix: Fulfill Your Destiny:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Just the thing you need to find your next idea.
conversations.prefix: A Book of Writing Prompts:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: A simple matchbook adorned with a blue star and no words.
conversations.prefix: A Matchbook From The Blue Star:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Situate yourselves.
conversations.prefix: So It Begins:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Mostly bourbon and grapefruit juice. Sweet, sour, and powerful.
conversations.prefix: Brown Derby:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Mostly gin, vermouth, and old school cred.
conversations.prefix: Dirty Martini:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Proof that we live in an unjust world governed by cruel and malicious gods.
conversations.prefix: Vile Concoction:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Made of Vodka, Cointreau, and bad decisions. Dare you taste the forbidden fruit?
conversations.prefix: Cosmopolitan:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'"
conversations.prefix: The Story: Begin at the Beginning:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You hear the Muses whispering at your shoulder. The words seem to spill out of you of their own accord.
conversations.prefix: Flash of Inspiration:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."
  
  -- Gene Fowler
conversations.prefix: Writer's Block:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You are a diabolical genius. They'll never see this coming.
conversations.prefix: Plot Twist:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Do it now!
conversations.prefix: Get to the Crappa:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hey, come on guys, be cool.
conversations.prefix: Break It Up, Fellas:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: So, the ghost of Hunter S. Thompson has possessed the body of your friend and fellow writer. What are you gonna do about it? 
conversations.prefix: What to Expecting When You're Possessing:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Wait, what's going on here?  Mack's here willingly?  Why would he do that?  Why is Thompson here?  What are they babbling about?
conversations.prefix: Get The Skinny:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Wait, what’s going on here? Mack’s here willingly? Why would he do that? Why is Thompson here? What are they babbling about?   
conversations.prefix: Get The Skinny:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: *When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.*
  
  So said the man himself.
  
  Ready to turn pro?
  
  
conversations.prefix: Will You or Won't You?:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: So, you've decided you're all on the same side: Thompson's side. Now, what are you gonna do about it? 
conversations.prefix: Make a Plan:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: And so, it begins. 
  
  The depravity. 
  
  The decadence.
  
  The *thrill.*
conversations.prefix: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, '16:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Step one: gain the raving hordes.
  
  Step two: fool enough people to get the nomination. 
  
  Time to get that ticket to the big leagues. 
conversations.prefix: The Drumf Diary:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The time has come; we're already there, and now? Now it's time to make those final statements. 
conversations.prefix: Kingdom of Fear:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Synonyms: alert, hypervigilant, a certain self-centered kind of empathetic. You've seen things, man. 
conversations.prefix: Keen Eyes:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You, the dark, a mirror, and a few hours for ruminating: sounds like your typical weekday night.
conversations.prefix: Brooding:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You write to plumb the depths of the human heart and the meaningless abyss of existence.
conversations.prefix: Existentialist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your time outdoors has made you a rugged individual. Your appearance is rough and ready, but that is a thing now. You were the original lumbersexual.
conversations.prefix: Rugged:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The "medicine" is a fickle mistress. Sometimes, she allows hours of work,  reams of paper of varying intelligibility. Other times, she gives you hours of staring at a wall, hoping that, if you're still enough, the lizard people will slither off to find another victim. 
conversations.prefix: Disconnected from Reality:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Is there anything more cliché than being someone who teaches an art, but desperately wishes, not to teach, but to do?  No, there really isn't.  But for an English teacher, it's a very special hell: If you're anywhere near good enough to actually write, then you are deeply qualified to realize what a cliché your position is. The question is: What are you going to do about it?
conversations.prefix: Frustrated English Teacher:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Teachers lead a remarkably filtered existence, even those who are honest with their students; there's honesty, and then there's too much information. When you work in a public school, it becomes self-censorship, and that can be fatal.  This mind's defense: twiste up inside, so that the outer words are safe, and the inner words are contained until they can be let out safely.
  
  *Hopefully* contained.
conversations.prefix: Twisted:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Usually, you're too busy with more... Recreational enjoyments that aren't *actual* recreation to keep up well. 
conversations.prefix: Slow to Act:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: *Dude, you can do whatever you want if you put your mind to it. Watch!*
  
  For better or worse, once you put your mind to doing something, anything, you're going to finish it.
conversations.prefix: Determined:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Stare long into the abyss, and maybe something stares back.
  
  Stare longer, and realize that nothing was there. 
  
  You, either.
conversations.prefix: The Abyss:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Let's be honest, you were already a *little* bit on the train the moment you knew it was Hunter S. Thompson speaking through your buddy. The interest is there, and maybe now it's time to do something about that. 
conversations.prefix: Enthusiast:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get the story. 
  
  Tell it straight.
  
  Don't throw up.
conversations.prefix: Unblinking:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: In the haze and chaos that is the campaign trail, sometimes you get ahead of yourself. Or behind yourself. The possibilities are endless. 
conversations.prefix: Scatter-Brained:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: "Meaning is not in things but in between them."
  --Norman O. Brown
conversations.prefix: Pattern Recognition:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The seeds of this populist rage have been growing for years.
  
  The story is already written.
  
conversations.prefix: Despairing:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dr. Hunter S. Thompson took the maximum out.  Maybe he saw something we didn't.
conversations.prefix: Heaven's door: