b Sometimes a perfective situation is represented by a point (.) in contrast to an imperfective situation, which is represented by either a series of points (…) or a line (_____). Comrie suggests rather that we view the perfective situation as a blob: Since the notion of a point seems to preclude internal complexity, a more helpful metaphor would perhaps be to say that the perfective reduces a situation to a blob, rather than to a point: a blob is a three-dimensional object, and can therefore have