In grasping the present, he felt for the first time the massive steadiness of time's movement everywhere complicated by shifting currents, waves, surges, and countersurges, like surf against rocky cliffs.

在把握现在的过程中， 他第一次感受到时间运动的巨大稳定性， 到处都因不断变化的水流、波浪、激增和反激增而变得复杂，就像海浪拍打岩石悬崖一样。