Hi, Dallas Hinton! -> Anton Shepelev
I read your message from 18.05.2020 00:11


 AS>> Yes, no factual knowledge, but then do you explain the Past Simple
 AS>> tense in: "demon was held captive, which would answer the
 AS>> interrogation of sorcerers." If the writer had still had the ring
 AS>> in his posession at the time of writing, whould not he have
 AS>> written "... demon is held captive, which will answer..."?

 DH> The writer is writing about events which have happened (past). We
 DH> have no idea what (if anything) has transpired since. In any case,
 DH> to suddenly shift from past to present would be quite jarring to
 DH> the reader.

BTW, Anton used such a time shift in his question. I was also told many
times not to do such a thing in one sentence or even in one paragraph.

-----Beginning of the citation-----
In one of his better tales, of which the original version was rejected
by the miopical editors, Clark Ashton Smith presents a secred record
made by a sorcerer, describing the way he banished a devil that had come
to earth from a comet. The setting -- a fictional province in medieval
France:
----- The end of the citation -----

In one of his better tales, of which the original version was rejected
by the mYopic editors, Clark Ashton Smith PRESENTED a sAcred record made
by a sorcerer, describing the way he banished a DEMON (or THE DEVIL),
that had come to earth from a comet.


Bye, Dallas!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2020

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