Sentimental Talks

In An Unlikely Meeting three people have/ may have/ arranged a meeting. The woman has been the lover of one, of both, of others. Their progress toward this chance/ planned meeting is seen from every angle. In A Sentimental Talk the group meets for an outing at Valsigne with the memory of their meeting last year at Rames. Only Jack is missing. They try to reconstruct what happened at Rames. It turns out that one time can not be separated from the other or seen from one point of view.

To begin with there could be two different towns fairly far away from each other and in a room in an hotel in both the one and the other, standing by the wash-basin, a man respectively making an identical movement in the mirror...There could be a third town too, and another man, having left his hotel, paid the bill and gone to the station in this other town and asked there for a ticket to that town, exactly, where the man and woman will perhaps meet, in fact this man coming from this other town might be going to meet the other two characters, for some reason or other, getting on the train at the same moment as the other man would be getting on the other train in the other town, both trains being on their way to the same terminus