More Walker Percy on Truth and the Meaning of Life

From "Diagnosing the Modern Malaise" (1985):

[W]hat are we to make of a man who is committed . . . to the proposition that truth is attainable by science and that emotional gratification is attainable by interacting with one's environment and at the highest level by the enjoyment of art?  It seems that everything is settled for him.  But something is wrong.  He has settled everything except what it is to live as an individual.  He still has to get through an ordinary Wednesday afternoon.  Such a man is something like the young man Kierkegaard described who was given the task of keeping busy all day and finished the task at noon.  What does this man do with the rest of the day?  the rest of his life?