scream-of-consciousness

[Garson O'Toole]

The "scream-of-consciousness" term is used in a periodical called
Furioso according to a Google Books snippet. The GB date is 1951 and a
probe shows that issues dated Spring 1951 and Winter 1951 are
contained in the volume. A catalog entry says the publication stopped
in 1953.The titles given for the books written by Virginia Woolf show
that this instance is wordplay.

Furioso: Volume 6
James Angleton, Reed Whittemore - 1951 (Google Books snippet; Not
verified on paper; Data may be inaccurate)

At present, of course, the greatest English wolf is Virginia Woolf,
who employed the "scream-of-consciousness" technique in Mrs. Dashaway
and Rum of One's Own. Although she distinctly preferred novels to
fiction, Mrs. Woolf made ...

http://books.google.com/books?id=1ZiwAAAAIAAJ&q=scream#search_anchor

The Village Voice on September 7, 1972 uses the title "Scream of
Consciousness" over some letters from readers. Below this article
"Master Baiting" is used as a title over some other letters. Hence, I
suspect this instance of "scream of consciousness" is also wordplay
based on "stream of consciousness".
Garson

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 1994 Don Oldenburg in _Washington Post_ (May 30) C5:  Of his unpublished
> collection of 125 war poems, many are scream-of-consciousness pieces that
> fly out of nowhere.
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> 23,000 raw Googlits.
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> BONUS
> Ibid., quoting a former army nurse: "We really were kids....You got these
> real fuzzy-faced boys, and you had these real fuzzy-faced girls taking care
> of them."
>
> Meaning "young and innocent," of either sex.
>
> Fortunately, the few Google hits on "fuzzy-faced girls" seem to refer
> chiefly to canines.
>
> JL
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