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... was that an HN profanity filter or an awesome colloquialism? (Flowers for Algernon)
by irunbackwards 14y ago
... was that an HN profanity filter or an awesome colloquialism? (Flowers for Algernon)
- stdbrouw 14y agoIt's a book.
- qohen 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon
- patio11 14y agoIt's a literary allusion, though to the wrong short story. (See sibling comment.) The right short story depicts a dystopian America where the Handicapper General, a government official, attempts to achieve equality by bringing everyone down to the same level, for example by attaching lead weights to graceful ballerinas so that people who are not graceful ballerinas are not made to feel bad when watching them perform.