"The clock ticked. The moving instant which, according to Sir Isaac Newton, separates the infinite past from the infinite future advanced inexorably through the dimension of time. Or, if Aristotle was right, a little more of the possible was every instant made real; the present stood still; the present stood still and drew into itself the future, as a man might suck forever at an unending piece of macaroni."

Aldous Huxley 'Point counter point'

thanks to Ari