Out Stealing Horses

I'm reading Per Petterson's "Out Stealing Horses" and I just came across a line I really liked.

"A shipwrecked man without an anchor in the world except in his own liquid thoughts where time has lost its sequence."

I like that.  That to me is a very visual way of describing your mind slipping away.

"A shipwrecked man without an anchor in the world expect in his own liquid thoughts where time has lost its sequence."