Stream of Consciousness

The stream of consciousness in literature, as is often called, should rather be described as a stream of words. Only a lunatic, much learned though he may be, could imagine consciousness is identical to the transmutation of the flow of sense-perception and feeling into a more or less elegantly succession of those peculiar substances, words. Whatever consciousness is, it most definitely can't be reduced to this babbling onrush of language. A succession of words should be content to described themselves simply as a succession, or indeed a stream, of words.