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Where does time fly to? Why? Your answers

French novelist Marcel Proust
Searching for lost time ... French novelist Marcel Proust was way ahead of us all. Photograph: Culture Club/Getty

Where does time fly to? Why?

Time does not always fly, it sometimes drags!
The secret would be to find out how to make it fly at such times.
Avril Taylor, Dundas, Ontario, Canada

• Tempus fugit: Time doesn’t fly to – it flees from. It escapes us, and we it, at the last.
RM Fransson, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, US

• Time will not fly. Time past is gone, time future is at best a project, at worst an illusion. Time is the present, ticking.
E Slack, L’Isle Jourdain, France

• Bored by our myopic inattention, time flies, hiding behind the promise of tomorrow.
John Geffroy, Las Vegas, New Mexico, US

• It hides in the equation E=mc2. Speed of light squared, time flies, my energy wanes.
Marilyn Hamilton, Perth, Western Australia

• Time flies to the place where joy is perfection and we yearn for eternity.
Charlie Bamforth, Davis, California, US

• It lands at embarrassment to allow time for unease.
David Ellis, Adelaide, South Australia

• Time flies to somewhere immemorial to remind us mortals not to waste it.
Richard Orlando, Westmount, Quebec, Canada

• Flying time only leads to wrinkles.
Stuart Williams, Lilongwe, Malawi

Forget George Washington

What is the least honest thing to have ever come out of you?

As a teenager I lied to my parents about going away for the weekend with my boyfriend. My beloved grandfather chose to die that weekend and I was summonsed back after they tracked me down. This taught me that I would always be found out and has kept me honest.
Margaret Wilkes, Perth, Western Australia

• My unconscious biases.
Paul Broady, Christchurch, New Zealand

• Probably “... for better, for worse”.
Ted Webber,
Buderim, Queensland, Australia

• Continuing in a soul-destroying relationship through fear of being alone. Thank goodness a long-standing friend saw my unhappiness and gave me the courage to move on.
Ursula Nixon, Bodalla, NSW, Australia

• My ballot when I voted strategically.
Philip Stigger, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

• My tongue.
Adrian Cooper, Queens Park, NSW, Australia

• To be dishonest, I will say: “Nothing”
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Jenefer Warwick James, Paddington, NSW, Australia

Socks obey strange rules

What happened to those lost socks?

Socks are an alien species that travel inter-dimensionally at will.
Charlie Pearson, Portland, Oregon, US

• They will “a pair” when you least expect it.
Jim Robinson, Bologna, Italy

Any answers

Is the rule still “Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday, but never jam today”?
Maurice Trapp, Le Vigan, France

Document: What came first, the verb or the noun?
Tracy Hickling, Rosebud, Australia

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