ensconced now in the formless cloak which separated his body to bare , disconnected particles , he became fleshed transiently of a naked speculation which maintained that in the diversions of days to come , he would continue to forget these childhood lessons evanescently , that , throughout his life , he would forget them and then come back to them , wondering why he had strayed in the first placefor , most certainly , there could be no doubt that he had been wisest when he was a young boy , and that he had now spent most of his life , in the years since , either meandering away from , or seeking to reacquire that same fundamental level of wisdom with which he had once been imparted at such an early age , which is to say , he had progressed no further in spite of his efforts ; on the contrary , he had let that initial wisdom slip away from him too often .