The Search

"The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning, for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island. And what does such a castaway do? Why, he pokes around the neighborhood and he doesn't miss a trick.
     To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. NOT TO BE ONTO SOMETHING IS TO BE IN DESPAIR."

                                                Walker Percy
                                                "The Moviegoer"

"And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. The ideas of the shipwrecked are the only genuine ideas. All else is rhetoric, posturing, farce."
                                            Soren Kierkegaard