Misc. Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (from WIkipedia)

[Mark Kohut]

"Sterne was no friend of gravity, a quality which excited his disgust; Tristram Shandy gave a ludicrous turn to solemn passages from respected authors that it incorporated, as well as to the Consolatio literary genre.[1][7]"
 
There is a character named Doctor Slop.....rather than an early example of stream-of-consciousness, Sterne sez it is an example of Learned Wit talking. 
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