Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.
Daniel KeyesMots clés charlie flowers-for-algernon
Am I a genius? I don't think so. Not yet anyway. As Burt would put it, mocking the euphemisms of educational jargon, I'm exceptional-a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of gifted and deprived (which used to mean bright and retarded) and as soon as exceptional begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression only as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody. Exceptional refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I've been exceptional.
Daniel KeyesMots clés charlie flowers-for-algernon
The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?
Daniel KeyesMots clés charlie flowers-for-algernon
The most important thing had always been what other people thought-appearances before herself or her family. And righteous about it. Time and again Matt had insisted that what others thought about you wasn't the only thing in life. But it did no good. Norma had to dress well; the house had to have fine furniture; Charlie had to be kept inside so that other people wouldn't know anything was wrong.
Daniel KeyesMots clés charlie appearances flowers-for-algernon
My studies are going well. The university library is my second home now. They've had to get me a private room because it takes me only a second to absorb the printed page, and curious students invariably gather around me as I flip through my books.
Daniel KeyesMots clés charlie flowers-for-algernon
Strauss again brought up my need to speak and wrtie simply and directly so that people will understand me. He reminds me that language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway. Ironic to find myself on the other side of the intellectual fence.
Daniel KeyesMots clés charlie flowers-for-algernon
I may not have all the time I thought I had...
Daniel KeyesMots clés charlie flowers-for-algernon
And other times there would be tenderness and holding-close liek a warm bath, and hands stroking my hair and brow, and the words carved about the cathedral of my childhood: 'He's like all the other children. He's a good boy.
Daniel KeyesMots clés charlie flowers-for-algernon
Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone.
Daniel KeyesMots clés charlie flowers-for-algernon
Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.
Daniel KeyesMots clés charlie flowers-for-algernon
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