Looking at E. B. White's "The Ring of Time"

Time standing still or time moving slowly, it would seem that we all have had some sort of experience with that sort of situation. Just when we say, the year flew by or the week went by so quickly, or even how did that child get so old, I remember when they were born. Time has a funny way of standing still and making us believe that an hour is only two seconds.

E. B. White has tried to explain this in his piece "The Ring of Time". He is describing a woman who is practing her act for the Ringling Brothers Circus. While watching her, he gets lost in a trance, where time stands still. It's a beautiful description where each word completes the picture that he is trying to paint. Not only is it a vivid story but the story itself has a slow methodical pace that makes the reader lose track of time, almost as if time was standing still while the reading was taking place.

The first time I read through the P. S. of "The Ring of Time" I didn't think that it fit with the story at all. But upon taking a closer look, White has paralleled the fiddler crab and the tide with the woman and time respectively. He is basically saying that even though time may seem to stand still or that we may want it to stand still. We can inspect everything under a microscope but time still acts on everything. It's just the way life is.