您年龄的年龄多大？在此之前的半分钟之前，您要进入高中，一个未钩的铜管就像您希望到达天堂一样近。在那之前，您只有五分之一的小孩，有一个十周的暑假，持续了十千年，但仍太早结束了。拉链！他们走得如此之快。
(How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast.)
约瑟夫·海勒（Joseph Heller）在《捕获22》中反思了时间的迅速流逝和青年的短暂性。他通过与生活的不同阶段进行了对比，唤起了一种怀旧的感觉，这说明了人们从童年的纯真到青春期的复杂性过渡的速度。提到高中和年轻的经历强调了这些时刻的简单性和美丽，这些时刻通常被认为是理所当然的。
这句话捕捉了成长的本质，强调了时间似乎如何压缩我们的经历。提醒人们，生活迅速发展，以惊人的速度将无辜的欢乐转变为成人职责。海勒（Heller）的凄美观察表达了对青年无忧无虑时刻的普遍怀旧感，这使它对时间的流逝和不可避免的纯真丧失了深刻的评论。