The phrase itself sounds like a ramble. It doesn't seem to stop until finally you reach the last consonant, 'ss'. I was interested in finding out how the literary style of stream of consciousness came into being. So here is what I found...
Dorothy Richardson, born on May 17, 1873, was known as the "pioneer of stream-of-consciousness" her writings would later become a strong influence for Virginia Woolf. Richardson was way ahead of her time and was a very independent lady. I feel like she is the embodiment of what Modernism was, she wanted to express herself, took a different approach to life, even went almost as far as raising a child out of wedlock. (This child would have been an already married H.G. Wells', but unfortunately, Richardson suffered a miscarriage).
Richardson wrote a novel, that "stretched 12 volumes" in just stream-of-consciousness. 12 volumes.
And we thought one novel was hard.....
Speaking of, Virginia Woolf had a awesome passage personifying the sisters "Proportion....and Conversion"(100). I was quite giddy over it in class. The passage perfectly put the the Doctor in his place, alluding to his "sense of proportions", and revealing that the trauma Septimus faced was chaotic and unyielding. Even a small reminder of the war was enough to send him into a spiral of horror. The psychological deterioration and pain, in my opinion, is the worst type of experience anyone can have, worse than physical pain. After all, half of physical pain is the psychological aspect. So the quote, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, words will never harm me", is fundamentally wrong. I wish it were true.
Words can harm, but keeping hurtful words and traumatic experiences ingrained in the mind is the path to human destruction.
The coherence in this post was at an all time high.
(Link to Dorothy Richardson down below)
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dorothy-richardson-pioneer-of-stream-of-consciousness-is-born
I definitely agree about the mental pain being worse than physical pain. Also, the thing about psychological pain being a major part of physical pain is so true - I can get more injured in day to day activities than at the doctor's office, but shots seem to hurt a lot more. I guess the positive side is that if you can control the psychological aspect of pain, you'll feel it less.
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