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human
*body relaxes* Hi , do you like to read?
gpt
*smiles* Hi there I do like to read. What about you? But I guess I only like audiobooks haha don't actually read the physical book
human
I love to read.I found interesting that the Bible was considered the non fiction book that had the biggest sales!
gpt
*raises eyebrows* Wow that is interesting. have you ever heard of the blind reading language Braille? It was created by Louis Braille who did it when he was only 15, that's impressive!
human
Wow that is so impressive ,I had no idea he was so young , I will not forget that now.  Did you know reading novels was causing a moral panic in the 18th century?
gpt
No that's really silly though haha. Can you imagine if people were worried today about everyone suddenly reading lol. Do you know what a reading bicycle is?
human
no, tell me about it! something I know is that literature was, long time ago, an olympic event!
gpt
*leans slightly forward* Haha no, it was actually something they invented for schools. They would put a reading bicycle into elementary schools and apparently the test scores skyrocketed after that
human
When there is something fun , it is way easier to learn. Did you hear bout a competition called "you laugh you lose? "
gpt
No I didn't hear about that, can you tell me more? Interesting that of Amazon's top five best-selling book, four of them were nonfiction, I wonder what they were
human
It was a competition held by Cs lewis and Tolkien It looks like they had to hold their laugh when reading terrible poetry. I could not have done that, I would have lost
gpt
*leans forward* Yep I would have lost too. Also I feel bad for the people that wrote those poems. Just think about if they knew who was laughing at them LOL
human
*laughs* Poor poetry writers!! I did not know George w Bush enjoyed reading so much
gpt
I didn't know that either. Have you ever read a book by Terry Pratchett before? Apparently he was knighted for his work, specifically his"services to literature"
human
I have not read from him, but it is a very good reference that he was knighted. Did you know that the fda did an act of censorship and burned 6 tons of literature?
gpt
*takes a step forward* No I didn't know that. That's kind of scary actually. I wonder why they would burn the books? Did you know that romantic kissing is actually a recent invention?
human
That is pretty cute, I think is interesting  that music , sculpture and painting were olimpyc events!!
gpt
That is really interesting. I wonder how those work because they're so subjective? Do you like heavy metal? There is a professor who teaches heavy metal as a form of literature apparently
human
I love rock, but I think that professor would have been burned by the FDA... talking about the olympic events for music, painting etc, this happened from 1912 to 1952.
gpt
*eyes widen* I see. Have you heard of President Andrew Jackson? You never actually went to school, it was his wife who helped him to learn how to read, and he became the president so I guess that's awesome!