Manuel quoted Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (Baroque Cycle, #1)
Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, a monumental epic that follows his critically acclaimed international bestseller Cryptonomicon, is …
So I saw in my dream that the man began to run. Now he had not run far from his own door, but his wife and children perceiving it began to cry after him to return: but the man put his fingers in his ears, and ran on crying, "Life, life, eternal life." So he looked not behind him, but fled towards the middle of the plain. — John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
— Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (Baroque Cycle, #1)