In an interview with the New York Times when the film was released in 1977, Allen said he had written the film as a comic "stream of consciousness showing one individual's state of mind, in which conversations and events constantly trigger dreams, fantasies and recollections".
Catherine Lamb makes a sparkling stage debut as a 13-year-old socialist and as a raised-consciousness comic character.
He assailed the officer class and its obsession with duelling, first in a play, "Freiwild," then in the satirical novella "Lieutenant Gustl," a comic stream-of-consciousness monologue that depicts a brash officer stewing over a petty insult from a baker.
Famous in left-wing activist circles, the Yes Men periodically break into mainstream consciousness with comic book hero flair — the Yes Men strike again!
There was an atmosphere of drifting melancholy about him that, as in his prose, he made almost comic by sly self-consciousness.
For some bizarre reason, the "Love Is...".. comic strip slunk into my consciousness while eating at Jamaica Street Stores.
The published objections to this book are just odd; its formal variations (nothing you haven't seen in a comic strip) register shifts in consciousness neatly, and the characters are fully alive — even someone like Leah, a Londoner of Irish descent who can't choose a way to fill in her own life.
Representation is humanisation, and we have an inexpressible amount of ground to make up if we want to begin to establish gay people and trans people and disabled people and people of colour and fat people and sex workers as fully realised human beings – not tropes, morality tales, or comic relief – in the public consciousness.
By ending there, Giddins suggests it's not such a leap from adventure comics to historical and social consciousness.
There is something inherently comic about the stream-of-consciousness rant; and while there are some good grim jokes here, one doesn't have the sense of controlled style found in other writers who have used similar techniques – Apollinaire, Joyce, Beckett, Bernhard, etc. (This might be down to the translator, but I doubt it).
