Atdtda27: Exile of the present tense, 759-761

[Michael Bailey]

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".
> ....Introspective, Halfcourt recalls Yashmeen

introspective yet passionately, a crucifixion of repressed longing
- how lonely he must feel!  There's the idea that his position
as executive of colonial will is inherently lonely; a learning to expect
the departure of the beloved that he would have avoided by staying
home in Britain.