Was that the time or was that another time another place another time (C10)

A three-part structure interlinks three alternating monologues from three separate periods of past time in the experience of the character.

Each voice – 'A', 'B' and 'C' – recalls a separate narrative and each sequence of passages bears a stylistic association with its successor. The pattern is mostly regular, with each voice speaking four times during each of three scenes, each sequence of twelve passages separated by the voices falling silent.

Scene 1:	A C B / A C B / A C B / C A B	(7 sec silences)
Scene 2:	C B A / C B A / C B A / B C A	(10 sec silences)
Scene 3:	B A C / B A C / B A C / B A C	(10 sec silences)

The first and second scenes offer precise parallel patterns; the third offers a pattern repeated three times. The symmetry of the first (ACB) and second (CBA) sequences is allowed some variation (CAB and BCA respectively) and the formalism is again varied in the final sequence. The light rises and then fades on Listener's face between each sequence (B4 – C5, A8 – B9), fading altogether after C12. 'It is the shape that matters' Beckett always insisted.

The separate times that memory imagines are, paradoxically, unified not only in form and style but also, to offer one example, by:

the stone upon which the child imagines ten or eleven friends, on 'a grey day' and the stone seat at the edge of the little wood where the lovers sit, under a 'blue sky' and the marble slab on which the old man rested, after 'the cold and rain' of winter.