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I talk to myself (both in my head and out loud) alll the time and I just recently started reading “ducks, newburyport” which is written in the style of stream of consciousness and is essentially the inner monologue of a middle-aged woman in ohio. it’s genuinely so fascinating to read and it’s all one sentence long. one thought after another and thoughts getting interrupted by other thoughts and coming back to a thought from ten pages ago and so forth. i’m only about 90 pages in but i love it so much already!
i recently watched an interview where the author, lucy ellman, said that she wanted to trace someone’s thought patterns and that she doesn’t think thinking has punctuation in our brain or ever really end. and that sums it up pretty well, it truly does mimic how my brain works most of the time.
i recently watched an interview where the author, lucy ellman, said that she wanted to trace someone’s thought patterns and that she doesn’t think thinking has punctuation in our brain or ever really end. and that sums it up pretty well, it truly does mimic how my brain works most of the time.
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