<p><pre><code>    Which tense do you want to live in ?
    — I want to live in the imperative of the future passive participle— in
    the “what ought to be.”
    I feel like breathing that way. That’s what I like. There exists such a
    thing as mounted, bandit-band, equestrian honor. That’s why I like the
    fine Latin “gerundive”—that verb on horseback.
    Yes, the Latin genius, when it was young and greedy, created that form
    of imperative verbal traction as the prototype of our whole culture, and it
    was not the only thing that “ought to be” but the thing that “ought to be
    praised”—laudaturaest—the thing we like. . . .
      ..The Prose Of Osip Mandelstam</code></pre>