Surface Tension (1968)

"It was raining and I could see the shafts of rain link sky and mud. ...The rain and my spleen took on, in the humid atmosphere, the features of my great friend. Was it last year? In another life? Yesterday?... 

... The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty."

Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis