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or, as John Dickenson put it even earlier at the end of his second dedicatory sonnet to the first edition of Chapman's *Ovid's Banquet of Sense*: "futurum inuisibile." Shirley At 08:20 20/10/00 -0400, you wrote: >psychoanalytic critics addressed this question of verb tense and desire a while back. lacan, for instance, points out that desire is proleptic---it is a present moment of anticipation, and is, thus, most effectively expressed/embodied in the future perfect, a gratification that will have occurred, a satisfaction that will occur in the present but that will be recognized only retrospectively. > >stephen > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%