The "interior monologue" is the same innovation as silent reading (which is still impossible for many. Watch their lips as they subvocalize...) People anthropomorphize people too much. If you can "picture things in your mind's eye" (while awake) you should know that most can't.
Ever read Finnegans Wake? The thoughts of the narrator CANNOT be contained in his mind, they erupt and walk the earth, speaking tongues unknown to men. They have been foreclosed from the real, they reemerge in the symbolic.
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Finnegans Wake takes place in a dream.
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"Finnegans Wake," he tweeted, "takes place in a dream." His memories were good; this is how it had been worded when he'd first come across it on /lit/.
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Everyone knows this you dullard
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I just wanted you to understand how retarded you had to actually be, to point out that Ulysses predates the first talkie to someone who just stated that thought was invented by movies.
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I have low expectations for your input.
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The fact is you are an uneducated pedant and you can't help it.
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