Perelandra

I'm reading "Perelandra", the second book in the CS Lewis space trilogy (finally getting around to it... well worth it). Read chapter 4 last night. There was this part where Ransom has just discovered the tree bubbles that give him some sort of nice "high" when he pops them. The thought occurs to him that he could take a flying leap and pop a bunch of them at once... if one is good, more must be even better, right? But he restrained himself. Here's the quote on why: "...He had always disliked the people who encored a favourite air in the opera -- 'That just spoils it' had been his comment. But this now appeared to him as a principle of far wider application and deeper moment. This itch to have things over again, as if life were a film that could be unrolled twice or even made to work backwards... was it possibly the root of all evil? No: of course the love of money was called that. But money itself -- perhaps one valued it chiefly as a defence against chance, a security for being able to have things over again, a means of arresting the unrolling of the film."
Isn't that brilliant?! K. bye. :)