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    Tense in Memoir

    Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

    The following exercise in the invention of a style for my memoir turns out to be “academic.” That is, a professional reader found the switching of tenses a good way to lose the reader almost immediately. That I don’t want to do. I’m sure you don’t want to do it either. I am therefore advising […]