John Boyd as in Boyd Upchurch, the Alabama Baptist stock car racer English professor science fiction writer?  His Rakehells of Heaven is one of the funniest scifi novels I've ever read.  Imagine, if you will, a planet whose inhabitants have the political structure of a loose confederation of underground universities.

I'll have to look for Coram's book, past perfect or not.

Herb

Herbert F. W. Stahlke, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of English
Ball State University
Muncie, IN  47306
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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of MC Johnstone [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: November 23, 2008 9:45 PM
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Subject: Re: What price glory?

Brad Johnston wrote:
> He chimed in with, What's the past perfect?
>
>
That sounds like your worst nightmare, Brad. I've been reading a
biography of John Boyd, written by Robert Coram, a journalist for the
Atlanta Journal Constitution. Coram religiously avoids the past perfect,
joyously piling simple past upon simple past, and may the reader beware.

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