Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

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From	djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject	Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
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Date	2016-11-19 22:05 +0000
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In article <o0qh01$9m$3@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 11/18/2016 6:56 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> On 11/18/2016 1:01 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> On 11/18/2016 2:56 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>>> On 11/18/2016 12:42 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>> On 11/18/2016 2:26 PM, Peter Trei wrote:
>>>>>> On Friday, November 18, 2016 at 2:33:41 PM UTC-5, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>>>>> On 11/18/2016 8:30 AM, Michael Urban wrote:
>>>>>>>> Funny thing is, young people cannot properly appreciate what Keyes
>>>>>>>> did
>>>>>>>> here.  When you get older, and bits of memory and abilities
>>>>>>>> (Charlie's
>>>>>>>> motor skills are affected) are taken away from you a little at a
>>>>>>>> time,
>>>>>>>> you understand that Charlie is all of us (with a better middle than
>>>>>>>> most of us), compressed and distilled.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I thought the book was a warning about relying on technology ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Where on earth do you take that from? Charlie got to experience
>>>>>> something
>>>>>> good for a while. When he loses it, his biggest beef, in both the
>>>>>> story and
>>>>>> novel, is people feeling sorry for him. He was a ground-dweller who
>>>>>> got to
>>>>>> soar like an eagle for a while. Technology did something *good* for
>>>>>> him, and
>>>>>> will probably do better next time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I could take a pill, only once, which would grant me 200 IQ for a
>>>>>> year,
>>>>>> then revert to normal, I'd take it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> pt
>>>>>
>>>>> For you, the pill would take you from functional to super-functional.
>>>>>
>>>>> For Charlie, the pill ??? took him from below-functional to functional.
>>>>>
>>>>> And for you, afterwards you would always have the memory of being
>>>>> smarter while you now feel "dumb".  Might drive you crazy after a while
>>>>> with regrets.
>>>>>
>>>>> And I would probably take the pill also, even knowing that the effects
>>>>> are temporary.
>>>>>
>>>> Even knowing it would kill you when it wore off?
>>>
>>> Did it kill Charlie or just Algernon ?
>>>
>> Re-read the story and find out.  *evil grin*
>
>Nope, I've read it twice if I remember correctly.  I remember Algernon 
>dying and I thought Charlie went back to his janitorial job.

Hope, he wrote his farewell letter (while he could still write)
and went away, knowing he was dying.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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[Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2016-11-17 14:57 +0000
  Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-11-17 07:26 -0800
    Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2016-11-18 03:42 +0000
  Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes urban@panix.com (Michael Urban) - 2016-11-18 14:30 +0000
    Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2016-11-18 16:43 +0000
      Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-11-18 09:25 -0800
        Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-11-18 13:34 -0600
        Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> - 2016-11-18 13:39 -0800
          Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-11-18 16:04 -0600
        Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-11-19 05:00 -0600
    Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-11-18 13:33 -0600
      Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-11-18 12:26 -0800
        Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-11-18 14:42 -0600
          Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-11-18 12:56 -0800
            Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-11-18 15:01 -0600
              Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-11-18 16:56 -0800
                Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-11-19 15:42 -0600
                Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2016-11-19 22:05 +0000
                Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-11-19 22:05 +0000
                Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-11-19 19:37 -0800
            Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-11-19 14:26 -0800
        Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-11-19 05:21 -0600
        Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2016-11-19 15:24 +0000
        Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2016-11-25 19:46 -0800
      Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> - 2016-11-19 04:49 +0000
      Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes hamish.laws@gmail.com - 2016-11-19 05:48 -0800
    Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2016-11-19 15:00 +0100
  Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-11-18 09:31 -0800
    Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> - 2016-11-18 13:42 -0800
      Re: [Young People Read Old SFF] Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-11-20 10:34 -0800

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