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Enthralled Magazine Vol 1 Issue 2 - Reflect

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Stream of Consciousness Quotes<br />

Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, William Faulkner used the<br />

stream of consciousness technique. Excerpt from ‘As I Lay Dying’ - “Nonsense you look<br />

like a girl you are lots younger than Candace color in your cheeks like a girl A face<br />

reproachful tearful an odour of camphor and of tears a voice weeping steadily and<br />

softly beyond the twilit door the twilight-colored smell of honey suckle. Bringing empty<br />

trunks down the attic stairs they sounded like coffins […]”<br />

Samuel Beckett<br />

be abroad alone, by unknown ways, in the gathering night, with a stick.” – Molloy by<br />

headwaiter’s And to follow? and often rising to a scream. And in the end, or almost, to<br />

“What shall I do? What shall I do? now low, a murmur, now precise as the<br />

“If you take, for instance, the antithesis of<br />

the normal man, that is, the man of acute<br />

consciousness, who has come, of course,<br />

not out of the lap of nature but out of a<br />

retort (this is almost mysticism,<br />

gentlemen, but I suspect this, too), this<br />

retort-made man is sometimes so<br />

nonplussed in the presence of his<br />

antithesis that with all his exaggerated<br />

consciousness he genuinely thinks of<br />

himself as a mouse and not a man. It may<br />

be an acutely conscious mouse, yet it is a<br />

mouse, while the other is a man, and<br />

therefore, et caetera, et caetera.” – Notes<br />

from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br />

“...she took her hand an<br />

Where to begin?--that w<br />

to innumerable risks, to<br />

complex; as the waves s<br />

steep gulfs, and foaming

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