If quality writing is separate from the tense that is used, then the Booker should choose based on quality writing and not care about the tense whatsoever. If these authors had an issue with the actual quality of the selections, then okay, but having an issue with the fact that some of them are in present tense is ... silly.
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This just in: Philip Pullman dislikes The Present Tense.
- 14/09/2010 05:01:17 PM
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Phillip Pullman is a silly man
- 14/09/2010 05:05:50 PM
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Re: Phillip Hensher's longer opinion piece is less emotional but still weird.
- 14/09/2010 05:17:40 PM
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I dunno, I kind of see his point.
- 14/09/2010 06:20:50 PM
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Re: I mainly find myself concerned because of the "make a stand" part.
- 14/09/2010 06:23:13 PM
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Censorship? He's hardly asking them to throw those novels out or not to select them anymore.
- 14/09/2010 06:33:14 PM
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That's silly.
- 15/09/2010 12:30:02 AM
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Well, it's like if a poetry board only picked poems written in lowercase
- 18/09/2010 08:21:36 AM
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I was amused to see that the article was written in past tense. *NM*
- 15/09/2010 06:47:31 AM
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So do I
- 22/09/2010 05:38:09 AM
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Re: So do I
- 22/09/2010 09:16:45 AM
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And on vellum. And by hand. And typically with long, boring ekphrases.
- 22/09/2010 10:03:46 AM
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