I just realized something...
Sep. 10th, 2004 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Somebody on my friends list posted about 9/11. I typed up an entire comment about my experience then, and didn't realize until now that parts of it the historical present. My favorite parts. NOBODY uses the historical present, but it seems my natural storytelling rhythm, much though I try to avoid it.
Interesting.
Interesting.
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Date: 2004-09-09 08:16 pm (UTC)I think present tense seems to be the natural storytelling rhythm for most people. Especially listening to children. ("So then the monster is all RAAAAAH, and I'm like GRAAAARRRGH and he kicks me and I kick him back....") But it seems to get beaten out of us at an early age by literature.
Rather sad.