Should the tense be present, past, or future?
You have stories, futures, present, past, women, men, children, people in love, people suffering, people working hard".
Their interrupted courtship bookends the narrative, which is set, Ms. Svich's script informs us, in the "present, past and future".
And which master managed, as Beethoven did in his late music, to weld together present, past and future, the sublime and the profane?
Smolin again: "Relativity strongly suggests that the whole history of the world is a timeless unity; present, past, and future have no meaning apart from human subjectivity".
The verb is inflected for mood (indicative, subjunctive, imperative), aspect (perfective, imperfective), voice (active, passive), tense (present, past), and person (first, second, and third, singular and plural).
And while Céline's territory is what is modern, Antunes intersects the vividly present past with what's happening in the present (which, by the time you read the book, of course, is actually the past).
Who Present, Past, & Future, sees; Whose ears have heard The Holy Word That walk'd among the ancient trees, Calling the lapsed Soul, And weeping in the evening dew; That might control The starry pole, And fallen, fallen light renew!
