This is a recognizably poetic style Consider the lines from walt whitman's leaves of grass: All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe.' but he goes on to explain the meanings And what's to gyre and to gimble?' 'to gyre is to go round and round like a gyroscope Q&a for linguists, etymologists, and serious english language enthusiasts Now and forever is a common phrase
This sentence is supposed to be witty, specifically because the now and forever part does not fit the reader's expectations of what two times will be It is a play on words, and isn't supposed to follow formal logic Even if the sentence were changed to I want you to be with me only one time in my life Forever it still wouldn't be logically correct. This is a question of style, not grammar
Look at all the words lewis carroll invented, for example 'twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe You'll note carroll didn't do anything special to introduce his nonce words but just let them stand in. It sounds like you think that a word “is” some part of speech, and that it can therefore “turn” into another one That isn’t quite how it works, although the concept of zero derivation is when you use a word in a different grammatical way without any change to the form.
In the 1942 book mimsy were the borogoves an adult character (holloway) describes a new kind of skill from the future which two child characters (scott and emma) are able to learn as the x factor. Nonsense words exist, put to good effect in lewis carroll’s “jabberwocky” ’twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe They are words, but they mean nothing And the sum of them make a delightful nonsense poem. Deathday was popularized by j
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe Or as another english don would later pen to everlasting fame In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit For anything that hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom.
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