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	Re: Flowers for Algernon
	Posted By: SiMuLaCrUm	Date: 10/8/07 5:19 a.m.
	In Response To: Flowers for Algernon (Danny) : The other day, I was sitting around posting on various forums and, in : essence, doing nothing. So I thought of some things to do. Reading just : happened across my mind and I looked for a book that seemed interesting to : me.I have my own bookshelf and I skimmed across all the books until I : happened upon. Flowers for Algernon.[Your probably thinking: why in the : name of our good lord is he posting this here?] Keep reading. : The story is about a slow person named Charles Gordon. He is in a labratory : with two doctors, Dr.Something... and Dr. Strauss [I said it.] Gordon is : here because he is unusually dumb, if you will, and Strauss is going to : give him an operation[?] to make him smart. : He has these races with this rat named Algernon. He does a paper maze and the : rat does real mazes. Slowly he starts getting better at these mzes and : beats Algernon. And as I read this, one thing kept popping up in my head. : Durandal. : "I know about strauss' abuse.." In the story, Strauss gives Gordon : a shot or something [Not described in story.] and Gordon gets smarter and : smarter. Strauss saw Algernon [Also operated on.] be hostile and stupid : again. Gordon realizes he will soon revert back. : This might be the point where Gordon [supposedly Durandal] writes Gheritt : White terminal. Algernon reminds me of a familiar phrase from the Gheritt : White terminal as well: "Can't sleep in here, if the smell of this : musty bedroll : doesn't make you sick, then the sound of the rats chewing : inside the walls will keep you up." Coincedence? Maybe it is maybe it : isnt. : I have looked through the Gheritt White puzzling things about page and I also : scavenged this:"Cross over the cell bars, find a new maze,make the : maze from it's path, find the cellbars, cross over the bars, find amaze, : make the maze from its path, eat the food,eat the path." I though of : running the mazes over and over from Algernon's point of view. : I have found a number of other relations as well, "The food they feed : you in here could kill a lab rat..." Algernon dies in the end because : he is useless to the labratory. This is really piecing together eh? Here's : another one:"In his hand he saw a small white rat." : If this theory has already been posted, Im sorry for wasting space. If not.. : then.. :D : -Danny I remember reading that book in English a few years back. It was before I found Marathon. But those similarities are interesting... Then again, Bungie's staff is known for being inspired by a lot of outside sources.

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	Flowers for Algernon	Danny	10/4/07 5:10 p.m.
	sure enough	thermoplyae	10/4/07 10:00 p.m.
	Heh, back before I could spell words like marvel = *NM*	Blake37	10/5/07 1:34 a.m.
	Re: sure enough	RyokoTK	10/5/07 6:46 a.m.
	Re: Flowers for Algernon	SiMuLaCrUm	10/8/07 5:19 a.m.

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