exile of the present tense

[Mark Kohut]

Paul Nightingale wrote:
   
  “the exile of the present tense”
 (759)
highlights both a denial of movement, the erasure of colonial strategy,
 and
also the presence, somewhere, of a “no-longer-accessible homeland”.
   
  A-and I am reminded that, with no traditional past [accessible homeland] and no
  future to expect meaningfully, that is an exile in time as well, per TRP. 

       
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