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john le carré

  1. Rich.

    BrainPick Changing tenses in commercial fiction

    I'm reading The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré (and thoroughly enjoying it), and I've been struck by his use of tense changes. He does things like the following, where the book is mostly in past but occasionally switches to present: Dressing quickly, though with his customary care, Pendel...
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