Dallas Hinton to Anton Shepelev:

> The writer is writing about events which have happened (past). We
> have no idea what (if anything) has transpired since. In any
> case, to suddenly shift from past to present would be quite
> jarring to the reader. And also, the ring is (or seems to be from
> this fragment) a very minor part of the story so who really cares
> about it's current location? :-)

I see. It reminds me of a dialog line from a British horror
story, where a woman excalims "I forgot he was vegeterinan!",
when she realies she has prepared no vegetaranian meal for her
new acquaintance, who, by all means, is vegetarian still. I think
it is from Ramsey Campbell's "The Doll Who Ate his Mother."

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