Lancelot

So, I took my advice from a few posts ago, and read a book - Lancelot by Walker Percy.  I'm not going to try and tie it into LOST, because that's done and gone.  But, I did enjoy the book.  I'm not going to go into much detail right now, but I did want to share an interesting quote.

In the book, the main character comes to an awakening of sorts.  He realizes he's been doing the same thing, everyday, for the past twenty years, a slave to his habits.  But now, shocked out of his shell by an event (that's a whole other story...), he begins to really live.  This is a snippet of his take on 'time.'

"No, that's not the mystery.  The mystery lies in the here and now.  The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself?  As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future.  The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting the pure possibility into banality.  The present is the tape head, the mouth of time."

Like I said, I'll try to give more thoughts on the book after it digests some more.  It's an interesting story, told in the second person, by a man in a nuthouse.  As he retells some crazy events of his life, we also get his commentary about life and time...  that's all you'll get for now though.  Anyways, the quote has been motivating me lately, so I thought I'd share it.