Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes, 1966
A man whose mind is transformed by surgery discovers that intelligence has a price, and that feeling may be the harder science.
Daniel Keyes
Keyes wrote the first version after a student asked whether he could become smart by working hard; the story won a Hugo before becoming a novel.
Feels like identity, melancholy and morality.
The grip that keeps us from dissolving into the storm.
As when men to keep from being swept overboard in the storm clutch at each other’s hands to resist being torn apart, so our bodies fused a link in the human chain that kept us from being swept into nothing. Books by Daniel Keyes
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