Narratives in English are traditionally written in the past tense. It irritates me to no end when a writer decides to go present tense in fiction because I find it more difficult to read. I suppose it's a bit of silly iconoclastic post-modernism or some such crap at work; books were traditionally written in the past tense, so it must be avoided at all cost!
This message last edited by orius on 22/09/2010 at 05:39:56 AM
This just in: Philip Pullman dislikes The Present Tense.
- 14/09/2010 05:01:17 PM
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Phillip Pullman is a silly man
- 14/09/2010 05:05:50 PM
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Re: Phillip Hensher's longer opinion piece is less emotional but still weird.
- 14/09/2010 05:17:40 PM
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I dunno, I kind of see his point.
- 14/09/2010 06:20:50 PM
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Re: I mainly find myself concerned because of the "make a stand" part.
- 14/09/2010 06:23:13 PM
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Censorship? He's hardly asking them to throw those novels out or not to select them anymore.
- 14/09/2010 06:33:14 PM
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That's silly.
- 15/09/2010 12:30:02 AM
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Well, it's like if a poetry board only picked poems written in lowercase
- 18/09/2010 08:21:36 AM
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I was amused to see that the article was written in past tense. *NM*
- 15/09/2010 06:47:31 AM
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So do I
- 22/09/2010 05:38:09 AM
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Re: So do I
- 22/09/2010 09:16:45 AM
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And on vellum. And by hand. And typically with long, boring ekphrases.
- 22/09/2010 10:03:46 AM
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