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   Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   > It is a Grammar violation that have become generally accepted.   
      
   Has become.   
      
   > A dead person cannot write -- he wrote.   
      
   That is true, but when we speak about something that he wrote of   
   eternal value and that is part our cultural heritage, the Present   
   Simple is preferable. This is not a violation of grammar but an   
   observance of it. Pay heed to Goold Brown's magnum opus "The   
   grammar of English grammars" (which is also the granma of English   
   grammars):   
      
   > Deceased authors may be spoken of in the present tense, because   
   > they seem to live in their works; as, "Seneca reasons and   
   > moralizes well."--Murray. "Women talk better than men, from the   
   > superior shape of their tongues: an ancient writer speaks of   
   > their loquacity three thousand years ago."--Gardiner's Music of   
   > Nature, p. 27.   
      
   Alexander writes (!):   
      
   > Another example, "It's me" instead of "It is I".   
      
   It depends and dangles: it is me you are disagreeing with :-)   
      
   > AFAIR, you used to be the defender of strict Grammar rule   
   > observation   
      
   Yes, the defender of strict Grammar observation -- it is I!   
      
   > and the sworn enemy of informal speech. ;-)   
      
   Had I been that, I should not have enjoyed the Wordsworth book   
   of Irish Ghost Stories as did. I thought I'd bust a gut over the   
   informal language in the funniest of them. Highly recommended:   
      
   https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/irish-ghost-stories-wordsworth-spe   
   ial-editions-wordsworth-special-editions_oscar-wilde_bram-stoker/1240277/   
      
   -- more than 1000 pages of fun and thrill. I have never been able   
   to locate all the stories online, but some of them are from Thomas   
   Crofton Crocker's "Fairy lenegends and traditions from the South of   
   Ireland": https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20121038/html.php  .   
      
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