ハンカチはむかしは「お別れの印」のようなイメージがありました。けれども、このごろは普段の贈り物としても好まれるアイテムになっています。
そんなに高価ではないハンカチなら相手の心の負担にもなりません。ブルックスブラザーズならいい感じではないでしょうか。
＜ショートショートコーナー＞ ChatGPTが作ったお話です
ChatGPTに「星新一風のショートショートを作って」と依頼したら、作ってくれました。
英語で依頼したところ、日本語で作ってくれました。日本の作家風の文章を作るときは、日本語を使うのかなと思いましたが、「Japanese Shinichi Hoshi style」の「Japanese」を考慮してくれたようでした。「Japanese」抜きで依頼すると、英語で返事が来ました。別のお話でした（笑）。英語のお話にはタイトルが付いていませんでした。
このAI、いったいどんな「人」なんでしょうか。
以下はそのやりとりです。
私：Hello! I’would ask you a favour. Please make a Japanese Shinichi Hoshi style short short using a handkerchief as a theme.
ChatGPT：Certainly, here’s a Shinichi Hoshi-style short short using a handkerchief as a theme:
「ハンカチの行方」
朝、私はいつも通りに駅に向かって歩いていた。すると、地面に落ちているハンカチを見つけた。
「誰かのハンカチだ。落とした人が心配だな」と思い、拾って持ち主を探すことにした。
すると、そのハンカチは突然動き出し、私を引きずり込んでしまった。暗闇の中、何が起こっているのか分からなかった。
「こんなことがあるのか…」と不安になっていると、突然ハンカチは私を放して逃げていった。
不思議な出来事だったが、私はそのまま駅に向かった。しかし、駅で見た光景に私は驚いた。そこには、私が拾ったハンカチを持った男性が立っていたのだ。
「あなたが落としたんですか？」と聞いてみると、男性はにっこりと微笑んで答えた。
「いいえ、私は自分のハンカチを持っていますよ。ただ、このハンカチはあなたに贈り物です。あなたが幸せになるように願っています」と言われた瞬間、私は涙が溢れてきた。
ハンカチが私を連れ去った不思議な出来事が、私に幸せを運んでくれたのだ。
Translation:
“The Fate of the Handkerchief”
One morning, as I was walking towards the station as usual, I found a handkerchief lying on the ground. “Someone must have dropped this. I’m worried about the person who lost it,” I thought, and decided to pick it up and look for the owner.
Suddenly, the handkerchief began to move and pulled me in. In the darkness, I didn’t know what was happening.
“This kind of thing can happen…” I became anxious when suddenly the handkerchief let me go and ran away.
It was a strange incident, but I went on to the station. However, I was surprised by what I saw there. A man was standing there, holding the handkerchief I had picked up.
“Did you drop this?” I asked, and the man answered with a smile, “No, I have my own handkerchief. But this one is a gift for you. I hope you will be happy.”
At that moment, tears overflowed from my eyes. The mysterious incident where the handkerchief took me away brought happiness to me.
私：Thank you! Bye now!
ChatGPT：You’re welcome! Goodbye!
（moment）
私：Hello again. Please make a short short story about a handkerchief in Shinichi Hoshi style.
ChatGPT：Sure, here’s a short story in the style of Shinichi Hoshi:
A man was walking through a crowded train station when he saw a handkerchief lying on the ground. He bent down to pick it up and noticed that it was embroidered with a strange symbol he had never seen before.
He put the handkerchief in his pocket and forgot about it until later that evening when he was sitting in his apartment. He took the handkerchief out of his pocket and examined the symbol closely. Suddenly, the symbol began to glow and the handkerchief started to vibrate in his hand.
In a flash of light, the man found himself transported to a strange and unfamiliar world. The sky was a deep shade of purple and the trees were made of a strange, glowing material. He wandered through this new world, trying to find his way back to his own reality.
As he walked, he noticed that the handkerchief was slowly disintegrating in his hand. It was as if the handkerchief was the only thing keeping him in this strange world, and now that it was gone, he was able to return to his own reality.
The man found himself back in his apartment, staring at the now-empty space in his hand where the handkerchief had been. He realized that he had been given a glimpse of another world, but he was grateful to be back in his own reality.
From that day on, the man carried the memory of the strange world with him wherever he went, always wondering if he would ever find his way back again.
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お話の出来はよくありません。星新一さんはがっかりするでしょうね（笑）
▽星新一のお話の動画
(48) 星新一氏のショート・ショート「神」を”いらすとや”さんのイラストで作ってみた：是非、概要覧もご覧ください。 – YouTube
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