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Definition of Stream of Consciousness
Stream of consciousness is a style or technique of writing that tries to capture the natural flow of a character's extended thought process, often by incorporating sensory impressions, incomplete ideas, unusual syntax... read full definition
Stream of consciousness is a style or technique of writing that tries to capture the natural flow of a character's extended thought process, often by incorporating... read full definition
Stream of consciousness is a style or technique of writing that tries to capture the natural flow of a character's... read full definition
Key Examples in The Satanic Verses
Part 8
Explanation and Analysis—The Arabian Sea:
In Part 8, Rushdie narrates the pilgrimage of Ayesha and her followers to the Arabian Sea. After various trials and obstacles, the group arrives at last. Rushdie describes their arrival with a single long, descriptive sentence rife with imagery:
The tide was in when the Ayesha Pilgrimage marched down an alley beside the Holiday Inn, whose windows were full of the mistresses of film stars using their new polaroid cameras,—when the pilgrims felt the city's asphalt turn gritty and soften into sand,—when they found themselves walking through a thick mulch of rotting coconuts abandoned cigarette packets pony turds non-degradable bottles fruit peelings jellyfish and paper,—[...]—and through the beachcombers, clubmen and families who had come to take the air or make business contacts or scavenge a living from the sand,—and gazed, for the first time in their lives, upon the Arabian Sea.
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