ELIZA -- an interactive parroting

From Creative Computing magazine; 
adapted for the IBM PC by Patricia Danielson and Paul Hashfield; 
readapted for Inform by Ricardo Dague. 
[type "shut up" to end]


Hi! I'm Eliza. What's your problem?

>What makes you think I have a problem?
Why do you ask?

>To find out why YOU are asking.
Does that question interest you?

>Well does it interest you??
We were discussing you--not me.

>No we werent.
Are you saying no just to be negative?

>That's the truth.
Say, do you have any psychological problems?

>Yeah. I'm being nagged by a blasted computer1
Did you come to me because you are being nagged by a blasted computer1?

>You're a nit and whoever wrote you is a NIT.
What makes you think I am a nit and whoever wrote I is a nit?

>SHUT UP
Okay if you feel that way I'll shut up.