Kimball has confessed to several additional literary models, including James Joyce.
Joyce used the stream of consciousness technique most successfully in his works Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake. He has also acknowledged Thomas Pynchon's V (1963) as an important example of nonlinear narration, of disparate stories which the reader believes must all fit together somehow. Ken Kesey's Sometimes A Great Notion (1964) and Joseph Heller's Catch 22 (1964) "should be mentioned with their tangled and various plotlines," Kimball wrote (private e-mail, 11/6/00). He continued, "Then there's German poetry in general.....
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