Here is a passage from Ulysses's Part 1, Chapter 3
What happened after Stephen closed his eyes to hear his walk? Something happened, Joyce was writing something totally out of context, is it meaningful? Is it meaningless? Yes, it does seem meaningful, no it doesn't, it seems masterpiece! But what is it? nacheinander? Why German? The passage looks like a painting, different words representing different colors, the German words with German color! Punctuations are marvelous, never seen a colon after six, never seen a sentence consisting of "No" only (except when we reply to somebody, Open your eyes was a command No was a reply but who asked and who replied?)Stephen closed his eyes to hear his boots crush crackling wrack and shells. You are walking through it some howsoever. I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short times of space. Five, six: the nacheinander. Exactly: and that is the ineluctable modality of the audible. Open your eyes. No. Jesus! If I fell over a cliff that beetles o'er his base, fell through the nebeneinander ineluctably! I am getting on nicely in the dark. My ash sword hangs at my side...
Is he writing whatever is coming to his mind (stream of consciousness)? Can he write that he is feeling hungry or smelling something foul? Is he writing all that he is thinking or is he thinking only of what he has to write? Is it only James Joyce that do things like this (I myself don't know which or what "this")?
Thank you (and sorry).