What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know.
Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.100, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
