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Proust, Joyce, or Eliot, this form of sequence permits the reader
an extraordinary identification with personalities of the utmost
range and diversity. The stream of consciousness is really
managed by the transfer of film technique to the printed page,
where, in a deep sense it really originated; for as we have seen,
the Gutenberg technology of movable types is quite
indispensable to any industrial or film process. As much as the
infinitesimal calculus that pretends to deal with motion and
change by minute fragmentation, the film does so by making
motion and change into a series of static shots. Print does
likewise while pretending to deal with the whole mind in action.
Yet film and the stream of consciousness alike seemed to
provide a deeply desired release from the mechanical world of
increasing standardization and uniformity. Nobody ever felt
oppressed by the monotony or uniformity of the Chaplin ballet
or by the monotonous, uniform musings of his literary twin,