Invoking a Martin Amis novel could go very very badly here. π¬ π€
@MLClark @LiberalLibrarian i must admit i don't get the joke. lol sorry.. never read him..
Time's Arrow is a book by Martin Amis about a life we experience in reverse (with super macabre themes when we go back through a major war that way).
So my joke was that it's dangerous to invoke the term "time's arrow" willy nilly; if Amis's version played out, it would put LL's attempt to get to the end of his workday in jeopardy, because he'd be going back in time instead.
(And thanks for feeling comfortable saying that you didn't know the reference! You're not really missing anything by not having read Amis; life is short! Lots of beautiful and thought-provoking reads exist!)
@LiberalLibrarian youβre almost there.