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Old 2nd May 2012, 09:58 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: Tenses

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Edit: I wondered also if there would be issues with switching to past in terms of how believable it would be that the narrator remembers things like the details of dialogue.
Hardly less believable than the idea that the narrator is translating his experiences into structured English as they happen. If the story draws them in, readers will accept it.
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