particular, it found its way into a very successful form: the novel. You can see Montaigne himself as a kind of novelist, albeit one who features just one central character—himself—along with walk-on roles for others encountered in his life or reading. He pioneered the stream-of-consciousness narration that would be a feature of modern novels long before consciously modernist experiments in that line came along in the twentieth century. The great psychological and social novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are positive waterfalls of streaming consciousness. They allow us to hitch
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