"Everything takes longer than it takes" (1996?)

[Jim Parish]

Barry Popik wrote of:

> EVERYTHING TAKES LONGER THAN IT TAKES--460 Google hits.

In a undated letter, probably from late 1927 or early 1928, C. S. Lewis
tells of a companion who, after arriving late somewhere, said, "We
might have known it would take us longer than it did."

Jim Parish

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