Time, Father

Time, Father
   A reference to the conventional personification of time as an old man carrying a scythe and an hourglass. Used as a transferred name in A Kind of Loving, by Stan Barstow. A young man says to a girl: ‘You’re only a kid. You won’t be leaving your mother for a while.’ She replies: ‘Well you’ve got to think about the future, haven’t you? Many a girl’s married and started a family at eighteen. Anyway, how old are you, Father Time, if it isn’t too personal a question?’

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