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   Hi, Anton! Recently you wrote in a message to Dallas Hinton:   
      
   DH>  "Presents" or "presented" becomes a matter of how   
   DH>  it sounds and feels - neither is exclusively right   
   DH>  or wrong.   
      
   AS>  I disagree. The present simple is *the* tense when   
   AS>  writing about literature, perhaps because good   
   AS>  literature is timeless :-?   
      
      
              While it may be de rigueur among academicians when one is writing   
   an essay about classic literature, the situation is not so cut & dried when I   
   have a comment to make about a piece of non-fiction which has been revised &   
   updated several times... or about a novel which has already lapsed into   
   obscurity.   
      
              Bottom line is, we have seen & heard both options used....  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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