Book – Shakespeare
And I went deeper into literature. I read Shakespeare. It’s like this guy really understood the motivations of people way beyond anything I ever read in any psychology book. So we all have experiences, but the focus of your consciousness limits your experience. So I discovered with stream of consciousness, experience doesn’t have to be put into a box. It’s not like anything—there might be unnamable identifications of certain experiences that are beyond what culture is telling you is possible.
Book – Ulysses
And then it took a year of James Joyce, where Joyce was writing in a stream of consciousness, at least in his book Ulysses, which was his first major classic—I mean he had written others—but Ulysses was stream of consciousness. You’re inside other people’s heads, seeing and thinking what they’re thinking. And I said, wow, I’m like being that person and seeing their reality and then seeing their discoveries of a reality as they’re having experience.
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