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Leopold Bloom.
In 1911 Henri Bergson in Creative Evolution created a
sensation by associating the thought process with the form of
the movie. Just at the extreme point of mechanization
represented by the factory, the film, and the press, men
seemed by the stream of consciousness, or interior film, to
obtain release into a world of spontaneity, of dreams, and of
unique personal experience. Dickens perhaps began it all with
his Mr. Jingle in Pickwick Papers . Certainly in David Copperfield
he made a great technical discovery, since for the first time the
world unfolds realistically through the use of the eyes of a
growing child as camera. Here was the stream of
consciousness, perhaps, in its original form before it was
adopted by Proust and Joyce and Eliot. It indicates how the
enrichment of human experience can occur unexpectedly with