Yep, I think that's about the long and short of it.

(You mean Virginia Woolf, right? Or did Tom Wolfe also write stream-of-consciousnessly?)

Edit: On second thought, I think a better way of putting it would be: Joyce's characters think speech while Faulkner's and (to a lesser extent) Woolf's characters just experience thought. In the Benjamin or Quentin Compson episodes of The Sound and the Fury, just to give one little example, there's a lot of grammatical mish-mash—an attempt to give to a web of words the texture of a mental state. I may be deceived, but the interior monologues of Joyce's characters, on the other hand, are grammatical, or at least no different from how they actually speak "out loud".

Last edited by Hydra; 01/18/2007 12:01 PM.