Some sense of ongoing, of "next," is always with us. But this sense of movement, of happening, Greg lacked; he seemed immured, without knowing it, in a motionless, timeless moment. And whereas for the rest of us the present is given its meaning and depth by the past {hence it becomes the "remembered present," in Gerald Edelman's term}, as well as being given potential and tension by the future, for Greg it was flat and {in its meager way} complete. This living - in - the - moment, which was so manifestly pathological, had been perceived in the temple as an achievement of higher consciousness. G
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