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   Dallas Hinton to Alexander Koryagin:   
      
   > AK> BTW, Anton used such a time shift in his question. I was also   
   > AK> told many times not to do such a thing in one sentence or   
   > AK> even in one paragraph.   
   >   
   > As usual, "rules are made to be broken". :-)  The challenge is in   
   > making the break work!  "Presents" or "presented" becomes a   
   > matter of how it sounds and feels - neither is exclusively right   
   > or wrong.   
      
   I disagree. The present simple is *the* tense when writing about   
   literature, perhaps because good literature is timeless :-? Examples   
   from the wild:   
      
   1. In an entry from April of 1847, 21-year-old Tolstoy writes: [...]   
   2. Artistotle saith there is a kind of insect near the river   
      Hypanis, which runs from a certain part of Europe into the   
      Pontus, whose life consists but of one day; those that die at the   
      eighth hour die in full age; those who die when the sun sets are   
      very old, especially when the days are at the longest.   
   3. Later in the same article, Morris writes: "The art of mosaic   
      windows is especially an art of the Middle ages."   
   4. Paustovsky writes: "I did not want to shatter this naive belief   
      of the village shepherd boy. Maybe because this naivete concealed   
      the real truth about the genuine craft of a writer-a truth we do   
      not always remember and do not always strive to live by".   
      
   The great old authors have died in time but have reamined in   
   enternity.   
      
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