But now, youngster, I have answered you freely, and I trow it is time that you answered me. Let things be plat and plain between us. I am a man who shoots straight at his mark.

Post-Wellseans have sometimes made the alternatives more concurrent. Herbert Read in The Green Child (1935) presented as simultaneous in time two contrasting utopias

Here's to all the rest, both esquired and anonymous, / May they all in their times find their own Hieronymus ;

To investigate slickspot formation in the Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California, USA, 16 pairs of pedons, one of each in a slickspot and the other under nearby vegetation (Figure 5.16(a)), were sampled (Reid et al 1993).