DD: regarding;
>I am absolutely baffled why you believe "It was like the revival of 
>an old melodrama that I had seen long ago with childish awe" is not 
>correct. And;
>  Tell me how you feel about, "It was like the revival of an old 
> melodrama that I saw long ago with childish awe", "saw" being the 
> past tense of "to see". He saw it long ago.

DD: In one I get the sense that he nows thinks the incident is like 
the old melodrama.  In the other that that was what he thought at the 
time, in the past. It does depend a lot on context, though.

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