The word "elapse" in literature has been used to convey the quiet, steady march of time, whether marking a fleeting moment or the long, drawn-out wait for change. In some texts, authors employ it to pinpoint concise, measurable intervals—a matter of seconds in Conrad’s account [1] or hours in the convivial prelude to night described in Beowulf [2]—while in others it embodies the span of years or even eras, as seen in works by Verne [3, 4], Shelley [5, 6], and Whitman [7]. At times, elapse is used to underscore a philosophical or inevitable transition: Russell muses on the interstitial moments between two instants [8], and even Jefferson notes that several years might elapse before a much-desired restoration takes place [9]. Thus, across literary genres, "elapse" serves as a versatile term to encapsulate both the tangible and the existential passage of time.