Sam Smith’s Reviews > Flowers for Algernon > Status Update

The more knowledge he got. The more frustrated he was in that he and other ‘geniuses’ didn’t know.

His mum was so upset in his lack of intelligence. Yet all switched.. she’s regressed with Alzheimer’s.

Interesting before the operation he felt he had friends. Now “intelligence without the ability to receive and give affection leads to mental and moral breakdown. Neurosis and possibly even psychosis”