Flowers for Algernon

He explaned how it took a long time with Algernon before he got 3 times smarter then he was before. Yet, if Nemur is right and the experiment is a success, what does it matter? No past, no contact with the present, no hope for the future. When he found himself moving along the unfamiliar path, he slowed down, and his actions became erratic: start, pause, double back, turn around and then forward again, until finally he was in the cul-de-sac that informed him with a mild shock that he had made a mistake.