> -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Brust [mailto:skzb at dreamcafe.com] > > >So what was the reason behind the stream-of-3-consciousnesses > >bit in _Issola_? > > If you don't know, then they didn't work. On a completely unrelated note I managed to surprise the hell out of myself today in a very boring class (there's nothing quite like being a 33 yr old back in college with a bunch of 20 yr olds to make you crazy) by not only using the word dialectic in a coherent sentence as relating to Communistic vs. Democratic/Capitalist thought, but it was within the flow of consciousness where the class (Ok, the Professor and I) discussing Existentialism as related to Camus' _The Plague_ and the subject of narrative voice as a tool of storytelling. All I could think of was how much it felt like a post on this list... If only I could have brought up Trotsky or Cute Asian Chicks in Bondage than it would have been complete. David