When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.
Zadie SmithIn a whisper he began begging forโand, as the sun set, receivedโthe concession people always beg for: a little more time.
Zadie SmithAnd now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all moments are; it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name; let us call it the Fullness of Time.
Zadie Smith