When I was young I heard the phrase “time marches inexorably forward” and I always thought it was one of those really cool phrases everyone knew from some philosopher or like from Shakespeare or some highbrow source of wisdom or wit.

Recently I looked it up, and I can’t for the life of me figure out where it came from, or why I thought it was one of those ubiquitous things everyone had heard before. It was probably actually from some X-Men cartoon or something silly but I’ll never figure it out.

I wish I could go back in time and figure out where I heard that phrase with that specific wording but, you know what they say…

Oh crap that’s not a song.

One time I walked into a 24/7 grocery store at night and an employee was at the tail end of an argument with someone who was walking out the door.

The guy walking out the door said something rude like “alright well you can go fuck yourself” and the employee yelled out after him, right as I walked in “Yeah!? well at least I have a HOME!”

I thought to myself that no matter how shitty the homeless guy was being, you should never yell that at anyone because of the chance that a bystander like me will wander into earshot and hear only that one single line and never forget it for the rest of my life.

That novel also does a shout-out to Richard Dawkins despite being set in the distant future because it was written in 2006.