in a world of increasing socialization, standardization, 
     and uniformity, the aim was to stress uniqueness, the 
     purely personal in experience; in one of ‘mechanical’ 
     rationality, to assert other modes through which human 
     beings can express themselves, to see life as a series of 
     emotional intensities involving a logic different from that 
     of the rational world and capturable only in dissociated 
     images or stream of consciousness musings. (8)

     Thus the technique of the suspended judgment, the great 
discovery of the twentieth century in art and physics alike, is a 
recoil and transformation of the impersonal assembly line of 
nineteenth century art and science. And to speak of the stream 
of consciousness as unlike the rational world is merely to insist 
upon visual sequence as the rational norm, handing art over to 
the unconscious quite gratuitously. For what is meant by the