Time's Arrow
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
--- (wrongly) attributed to Groucho Marx
An elaboration…
Time Flies Like an Arrow
An Ode to Oettinger
Now, thin fruit flies like thunderstorms,
And thin farm boys like farm girls narrow;
And tax firm men like fat tax forms –
But time flies like an arrow.
When tax forms tax all firm men's souls,
While farm girls slim their boyfriends' flanks;
That's when the murd'rous thunder rolls –
And thins the fruit flies ranks.
Like tossed bananas in the skies,
The thin fruit flies like common yarrow;
Then's the time to time the time flies –
Like the time flies like an arrow.— Edison B. Schroeder (1966)
Observation…
In The Realm of Meaning, Context is Everything.