I don't know, said Anne. He gathers together a little flock of all denominations, who only care to hear the word. Such a voice in the wilderness as often does good service, said Julius.

No, no, matey, I means no harm. Ye see, I think I done ye a bad turn onst, an′ I′m minded t′ do ye right afore I goes off. You bring a writer here, matey, an′ I′ll tell ye what.

Such sentences explicitly state that something both has taken place and will take place; they are silent about what Bruce and Wayne are doing hic-et-nunc.

He was co-founder of Naropa's writing program, the elegiacally named Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, later that year.