From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Dec 01 1996 - 19:26:35 MST
At 09:29 AM 12/1/96 -0600, Eli wrote:
>> completely by surprise. It didn't occur to Charlie that if
>> there was a simple surgical method to enhance
>> intelligence, with no downside, it would have long since
>> occurred as a natural mutation."
1) It didn't occur to Eliezer that FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON is not a scientific
report of an actual experiment and its sequelae but a crafted tragedy which
depends for its heartbreaking power upon that conclusion.
2) It didn't occur to anaesthesiologists that if there were a technique to
control pain, with no downside, it would long since have occured as a
natural mutation. Just as well it didn't occur to them.
Damien Broderick
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