Sir, – Frank McNally (An Irishman’s Diary, January 24th) quotes Anthony Cronin on a “chronological conundrum” in Krapp’s Last Tape: “The tape recorder had not been invented 30 years before [1958], still less 42 years before, when Krapp’s father died.” The conundrum arises because, McNally says, the play “is ostensibly set in the 1958 present”. The solution lies in the first line of the text: “A late evening in the future.” – Yours, etc,
MICHAEL McMULLIN,
Ballyshannon,
Co Donegal.