Of course I have people I have forgotten, and those who have forgotten me. I see some of the forgotten sometimes when I think of a specific incident, but then they lapse back into the forgotten zone.
Almost none of them from my public school days, astoundingly. I grew up near a really small town and at least 2/3 of my graduating class put in 12 years together. I remember them all.
Forgettable is OK with me. I've never aspired to fame and fortune and forgettable means I was average and I'm just fine with that.
Flowers for Algernon was amazing work. There was a movie (perhaps made for TV) that was no where near the book and so rightly forgettable. I think it was called Charly with the r turned backwards. I read the short story before it was a novel in an anthology. The essence was in the story but the author did a fine job flushing it into a book.
Precisely, that is the way it happens to me as well.
I know of the film as well but haven't seen it. Co-incidentally, I have read Flowers for Algernon in an anthology book as well, was it Sci-fi Hall of Fame Vol 1 for you?
That's a distinct possibility. Did that volume have one of Arthur C Clarke's 'Tales of the White Heart' in it? A terrific collection of short stories, too.
I read Sci-Fi then, and I don't mean sort of. I swallowed all of it.
No, it had his "Nine billion names of God" and as much a fan of his, I didn't like that story much.
Ahhhh. That may have been the most ironic piece that Clarke wrote. I was fascinated by the idea...
Every Clarke fan I met so far liked that story. I wonder why I didn't like it so. 🤷♀
I loved his and Kubrick's 2001 very very much though.
2001 is often thought of as his masterwork. I don't think so, I think he had many that were better.