Charly Page #4

What happened here that became part

of our national heritage?

Two lanterns in the steeple

signaled Paul Revere...

that British were on their way to Concord.

Right. Any questions?

I was wondering why people...

that would never dream

of laughing at a blind or crippled man...

would laugh at a moron.

What happened?

My friends at the bakery got up a petition,

and I got fired.

Is that an automatic law,

something like gravity?

Increased intelligence equals lost friends.

You needn't worry about losing your job.

The doctors want you to work full-time

at the clinic...

studying, learning, and getting paid, too.

Will you be there all the time?

Yes. I imagine so.

At least until the convention.

The doctors have been asked

to head a symposium.

The annual meeting of the

Society for Cerebral Research.

I suspect you and Algernon

are scheduled to be their prime exhibits.

What will we have to do?

Maybe speak a foreign language...

do an exercise in neo-Boolean math.

Both of us?

George Bernard Shaw wrote

something once...

Pass the ketchup, please.

- I didn't know he wrote that.

- What?

Pass The Ketchup, Please.

- Here's your chowder, sir.

- It's the lady's.

No, seriously.

Thank you.

He said, "Whenever you learn something,

it seems at first...

"as if you've lost something."

A whole universe is opening up for you.

It's a world that's always been there...

but not for you. Not till now.

Cream, please.

Now you're growing,

and growth causes pain.

You do your job very well.

Bert, please.

Are you quite certain of your evaluation

of Charly's Rorschach tests?

There's no question in my opinion.

Thank you.

Once the initial breakthrough occurred...

subject completed all elementary

school work in five weeks.

A capacity speed-up occurred

during the high school phase.

And all this work was accomplished

in three weeks.

Instructions were then accelerated.

You have been pushing him much too hard.

Subject made the leap from rote

memorization to a grasp of abstract theory.

The next step was attaining insightful

function and the ability to restructure.

- Subsequently...

- Richard.

May I please have your attention?

Emotionally, he's still a child.

Frightened. Insecure.

Look at these drawings...

I've had him do.

They are representative of the last...

two months.

- Each one progressively more disturbed.

- Disturbed?

He likes to paint.

He still can't believe he's being paid to do

nothing but learn, paint, and improve.

But can't you see?

I cautioned you about this before.

These aren't disturbed.

They are more sophisticated.

More abstract than the ones he did

a couple of months ago.

You go right on ignoring even the evidence.

Come.

Anna, I don't think we should interrupt

his studies.

Thymine, guanine and cytosine.

Structure of the insulin molecule.

Double-chain, 51 amino acids...

employing 17 basic aminos

cross-linked by sulfur atoms.

What metal and what gas

would you combine...

- In order to convert heat into...

- Electricity? Tantalum and cesium vapor.

Yes.

What is the technique called

the algebra of...

What are you trying to turn him into?

- Some kind of side-show freak?

- Don't be ridiculous.

You're pushing your program for his

intellectual development too rapidly.

It has to keep pace with my program

for his emotional development...

or the imbalance will become dangerous.

I thought we were to be satisfied

with a minor miracle...

- What are you afraid of?

...help a retarded human being...

become a more productive member

of society.

He has shown no indication

of any mental ceiling.

So why are you afraid to reach

for whatever that ceiling may be?

In any event, we shall have to give

Mrs. Kinnian her notice.

What?

All she can do now is ask him questions

out of books that he's already absorbed.

What he needs at this point

is a giant step forward.

New conceptualization. Inductive thinking.

That calls for experts, not Alice Kinnian.

I will say it once more, Richard.

Charly Gordon is still a child emotionally.

I don't agree.

Yes?

Charly, what is it?

I brought you a present.

Okay, come in.

Very nice of you.

What's the occasion?

I just wanted you to have a present.

Sit down.

Lovely paper.

Charly, it's so beautiful.

Must have been terribly expensive.

You like it?

It's beautiful but it's too much.

Just beautiful. Thank you.

He only kissed you on the cheek.

He?

Frank.

Have you been spying on me?

I've been falling in love with you.

No.

These feelings aren't what you think.

It isn't love...

We have fun working together...

but you have to understand that between...

You think anyone would ever want you?

You stupid moron!

I saw your cycle outside.

It's for sale.

What did you learn?

I'm back.

What did you learn?

I'm here.

- Marry me, Alice.

- Charly...

I could never keep up with you,

and I don't want to hold you back.

- And I don't want to be left behind.

- Einstein had a wife.

Didn't Einstein say...

that everything was in motion,

that nothing ever stands still?

Marry me, pretty girl, marry me.

We will marry at quarter past Wednesday...

on the 7 4th of November...

and our anniversary will happily be...

on those days when we both remember.

Ever been anywhere?

Someday.

Portugal is straight ahead.

I can smell the olives.

Ship ahoy.

Abandoned schooner off the starboard bow.

Want to ship out?

Okay, where are the sails?

Who needs sails?

As captain of this ship,

I now declare us man and wife.

I signed on only as first mate.

You know what's going to happen

in the year 2o18?

I'm never gonna let this year end.

It will be our golden wedding anniversary.

Charly, let's worry about breakfast.

Think Algernon has found a wife?

Or his true love.

The plural of mouse is mice.

The plural of spouse must be spice?

They say, Charly...

that true love...

is letting go.

What's enough love?

Always a little more...

than anyone ever gets.

Please, could we stop

these recriminations...

and use the time to decide

tomorrow's program?

All right, you still really believe

he'll be here?

But, of course. You were on the extension,

you heard them...

How do we know what's happened

to Charly in the past four weeks?

Whether he's learned more or not?

We have no immediate evaluation...

May we concentrate on the presentation?

All right, what are your ideas

on the programming?

How much time shall we program

for Algernon and the Phase 5 mice?

I thought we agreed to eliminate

that part of the presentation.

No, I did not agree to that.

It is essential to show the entire graph

of Algernon's various stages.

In my opinion, we should

concentrate on Charly...

the preoperative testing,

and then you cap it all off...

by bringing him out on stage.

Why don't you just leave

the programming to me?

You know, sometimes you give me

the feeling you have already...

written your acceptance speech

for the ceremonies in Stockholm.

Bravo!

You made us lose a lot of valuable time.

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