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Oh, interesting. The shift from present perfect to present progressive in popular literature is measurably enhancing the readers' sense of embodied perspective – the experience of reading from the POV of the character as opposed to an external perspective. Which means the present perfect can probably be used to manipulate objectivity in a way that the present progressive can't. Useful for mystery writing?