Lost marble

"What would it have been like if we'd finished our conversation?" Only that's not quite it. Don't know why, exactly, but it might drive me mad. Maybe too specific. "What would it have been like if we'd finished a conversation?" Maybe the tense is wrong. "What would it be like if we finished a conversation?" "What would it be like if we finished the conversation?" It's like the chorus to a song stuck in my head that i don't remember all the words to, only it's not a song. There's a voice and a context attached to a question, but it's like trying to remember part of a dream, and i don't know if it was real or even made any sense in the first place. Only the memory strikes a chord with some as-yet-inaccessible venue in my brain that makes it seem so lucid it's nearly palpable. If i can just get the words right, it seems like the whole memory would just click into place. "What if our conversation should continue?" "How would you feel?" "How would you like to continue this conversation?" Something like that. "Would it be o.k. if we continued this conversation?" Subjunctive. Was it dark or light there? Emotional cathexis-- can't say. Resonant voice or flat? Male or female? Natural or disarming? Inside or outside? "How would you like to continue this conversation?" Whispered or unconcerned? "Ach! That we should again find it thus possible to carry forth with such a palatable thread of interlocution." Probably not, but did it seem palatable? Uncomfortable? Emphasis on the time? "Maybe we should finish this conversation later." "When can we finish this conversation?" Sometimes it washes over me like the solution to a problem, but i can't grab hold of it-- too slippery. If i could just think of why it seems so important... "Will there be time to finish this conversation later?" "Would you mind if we finished our talk later?" Almost, but i don't know how. Absolutely maddening.