In her next book, Alice in Space, which she intends to finish in the autumn, Beer looks at how Lewis Carroll played with new ideas in non-Euclidian geometry - the never-ending party, time running backwards - although as a mathematician he remained in the Euclid camp.
And the Internet, he says, "is a never-ending race against time".
In a country that pulsates with neon signs and never-ending karaoke, leisure time activities need to pack a sensory punch if they're going to get any play from the locals.
Chalk is on a mission to help teachers reduce the never-ending pain and time-sink of paperwork.
Whenever the writer asked her, "How long is forever?", she always replied, "Time never-ending".
The constant pressure and the never-ending demands on my time got to me.
Simon described Uncle Pat to me in an e-mail: "He could play concert piano, and composed verses of the 'Metropolitan Desk Opera,' a never-ending farce of the Times that he would perform at parties, goofing on co-workers and bosses.
Sure, married life can be mundane at times — never-ending loads of laundry, ongoing arguments about the proper way to load a dishwasher and too many corny dad jokes to count.
That led him right into a trap that Kagan seemed to have waiting for him: She cited Carvin's own words from 2012, when he was arguing for plaintiffs in the case challenging the individual mandate: "That's not what you said previously when you were here, last time in this never-ending saga," Kagan said, provoking laughter yet again.
It's like a never-ending, trashy magazine sucking all time, space and logic into its bottomless maw.
