I wonder what would happen if they put Algernon back in the big cage with some of the other mice. “This intelligence has driven a wedge between me and all the people I knew and loved, driven me out of the bakery,” he writes. Charlie finds similar success, but not happiness, after his surgery. The surgery had been successfully conducted on a mouse, named Algernon, who manages to navigate mazes with dazzling speed. “Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on,” Charlie recounts in his first “progris riport.” “I dont no why but he says its importint so they will see if they can use me. He is severely intellectually disabled but learns that he may be a candidate for an experimental surgery to increase his intelligence. When the book opens, Charlie is 32 and holds a menial job in a bakery.
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