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   Mike Powell to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   > > And now they die (or are dying -- which is correct?) from a   
   > > wider variety of complications.   
   >   
   > I believe that either is actually correct.  :)   
      
   Lately I have had complictions in choosing between the Past Simple   
   and the Past Progressive. Desciribing the weather during the voyage   
   of the French cruiser Primauguet (where a mutiny is ripeining) to   
   the collonial Annam, Paustovsky writes:   
      
   > It was not wind but treacly sirup that came from Inidia.   
   > One's thoughts stuck in it like flies on viscid paper.   
      
   How do you find my translation? -- shall I have writ "was coming"?   
   I believe Paustovky avoided "blow" because it does not work with   
   "sirup".   
      
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