"Things are not sequential," Holbrooke said.
"In Tokyo, house numbers are not sequential," Mr. Doyle said.
The surprise is that Mr. Solal's medley is kaleidoscopic, not sequential.
The lyrics became fragments; impressions of a moment that are not sequential.
But it's not a trilogy in the obvious ways -- it's not sequential or chronological.
Her pictures are not sequential but suggest a circumstance or possible story line that involves the viewer in provocative uncertainties.
Structurally, it is very different - a tricksy, postmodern compilation of 17 stories, interlocking to an extent but not sequential.
They are not sequential, but companion pieces held together by the friendship of the Reverend Ames and his neighbour, the Reverend Boughton.
Finding the place was a bit of a challenge, since the numbering system is not sequential, the building is set back from the road in a country house with little identification, and parking is somewhat haphazard.
This is all the more remarkable because the feelings of Lok and his family have to be shown to the reader in a way that demonstrates that they barely have language – even their thought is not sequential or logical.
How to Be Both is full of time play – slippages, "memories complete with all their forgettings" (as the book puts it), lurchings forwards, unhookings from linearity, the sense that time is not sequential so much as, Smith puts it, "dimensional".
