Friday 21 September 2007

Present Tense



Tim finds planes on his page. Inkjet marks left behind from a previous printout that look like tiny aeroplanes. We are distracted. We talk about tenses and how this text is divided into three sections. 'This is', 'This isn't' and 'This will'. Three levels of description like a plane taking off from the runway to the 30,000 feet mark. Tim will work on the third section now. Predicting what Mole will do and how the audience will react. The text plays with tense all the time. From past tense in the first person to present tense in the third person. It's difficult to pin down. The text starts with Mole as you and the audience as them. Then the audience are you and Mole is him. Now we're using the future tense. Still stuck in the future of the script.

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