This chapter documents a professional and personal friendship. It explores Lars Engle's long-term admiration for Hugh Grady and his connection with Grady's work, quoting book reviews and evaluations for presses. It then looks back at the dawn of presentism as a problematic in the late 1980s and prints a thought-experiment about past and present that Engle wrote in 1987, an MLA paper that summarizes an imagined 23rd-century article about E. B. White’s 1952 book, Charlotte’s Web. The hypothetical future author sees in Charlotte's Web the covert emergence of anti-psychophagic consciousness (that is, the emergence of moral resistance to eating thinking beings). The MLA paper links this to 1980s controversies about reading feminism back into Renaissance literature and culture. The chapter argues that this sort of controversy led to Grady's introduction of the term presentism in the 1990s.