More than once I found myself hearing something personal or foolish read to this audience.
Thank God I had been careful to keep most of the details about Alice and myself in my private file.
Then, at one point in his summary, he said it: "We who have worked on this project at Beekman University have the satisfaction of knowing
we have taken one of nature's mistakes and by our new techniques created a superior human being.
When Charlie came to us he was outside of society,
alone in a great city without friends or relatives to care about him, without the mental equipment to live a normal life.
No past, no contact with the present, no hope for the future. It might be said that Charlie Gordon did not really exist before this experiment..."
I don't know why I resented it so intensely to have them think of me as something newly minted in their private treasury,
but it was—I am certain —echoes of that idea that had been sounding in the chambers of my mind from the time we had arrived in Chicago.
I wanted to get up and show everyone what a fool he was, to shout at him:
I'm a human being, a person —with parents and memories and a history—and I was before you ever wheeled me into that operating room!
At the same time deep in the heat of my anger there was forged an overwhelming insight into the thing
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