Full Idea
If we cannot coherently adopt a tensed perspective on events within fiction, then fictional discourse seems to provide an example of a tenseless language of before and after which is quite independent of the language of tense.
Gist of Idea
Fiction seems to lack a tensed perspective, and offers an example of tenseless language
Source
Robin Le Poidevin (Intro to 'Questions of Time and Tense' [1998], 7)
Book Reference
'Questions of Time and Tense', ed/tr. Le Poidevin,R [OUP 2002], p.10