Yep - this is it

The old lady sat in a shawl round glasses. It was a misty, shrouded dreamscape but I could see her face. Enough to ask: "Am I getting close?"

"You've been close for a very long time." American. Probably California.

TIME! That infernal last digit in this incontestable problem. Could you grab it? Stamp it out with a match head? Burn it from a sky scraper or spin it from the tip of your finger into vast orchestrated nebulae.

Can you orchestrate a nebula, horse head or otherwise?