He was dependent on doubt and wonder which could generally be discovered somewhere in his world, but on occasions these would disappear in a kind of white-out. At such times everything took on a simple, taken-for-granted quality, and while his perception would narrow on some small detail he would struggle as if enmired by its perfect naturalness and that of his relationship to it. Still, he believed that doubt and wonder possessed a deeper reality and expressed his unhindered essence more directly than the other state, in spite of the fact that they seemed active where the other was passive. Perhaps there was a difference between a passivity that was the true counterpart of activity and a passivity that was merely a defective form of it?