>> completely by surprise. It didn't occur to Charlie that if
>> there was a simple surgical method to enhance
>> intelligence, with no downside, it would have long since
>> occurred as a natural mutation."
1) It didn't occur to Eliezer that FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON is not a scientific
report of an actual experiment and its sequelae but a crafted tragedy which
depends for its heartbreaking power upon that conclusion.
2) It didn't occur to anaesthesiologists that if there were a technique to
control pain, with no downside, it would long since have occured as a
natural mutation. Just as well it didn't occur to them.
Damien Broderick