v1.0 - eBook downloaded from http://torrents.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=463754 and after that imported to fb2 by soshial (21.05.2008) Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den. —Plato, The Republic A HARVEST BOOK | HARCOURT, INC. ORLANDO AUSTIN NEW YORK SAN DIEGO TORONTO LONDON Copyright © 1966,1959 by Daniel Keyes Copyright renewed 1994 1987 by Daniel Keyes All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be mailed to the following address: Permissions Department, Harcourt, Inc., 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777. www.HarcourtBooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon/Daniel Keyes.—1st harvest ed. p. cm. "A Harvest Book." ISBN 0-15-603008-X PS3561.E769F562004813'.54—dc22 2004005049 Text set in Adobe Garamond Designed by Scott Piebl Printed in the United States of America First Harvest edition 2004 K J I H