man wakes up to discoverhis penisonfire

Yes, it turns out that he was up rather late doing some writing by candlelight, and had nodded off, letting his pen fall by his candle.  As the candle melted down to the pen, the heat had caused its case to ignite, and the fumes awoke the man who then saw that his pen is on fire.

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So what? The story is still being told by someone else which assumes the story is in the past. "awoke the man who then saw that his pen is on fire" is not a grammatically correct sentence. Surely you can see that.