"And when she came to class the following Monday—her pronunciation as always indecipherable, her random use of the past and present and future, her insistence on the continuous forms as if there were no other options, her avoidance of modal verbs as if there were something to fear in could and would and should and might and will—now I could see her, because I had seen her dance, and this is unforgivable."
— Pacazo by Roy Kesey, pg. 168
