Allow me a little digression.
A little digression about the BBC.
I think I went off on a little digression there for a second.
Only a small part of this statistic is attributable to homicide and that favorite digression of conservative pundits, "Black-on-Black violence".
He referred to the novel as a "small fiction in the form of reality," and despite some finely rendered lyrical digressions, the writing often has the brisk, compressed texture of a pamphlet.
The narrative pace occasionally slackens with a digression on etymology and Mawer's tendency to spin out cosmic significance from a small gesture calls to mind Kundera parodying himself.
Set in a small Tuscan town it puts before us not only the expatriate protagonists but also the town itself, its history, its local residents and their life histories, all interspersed with scholarly digressions.
The food can be found downstairs, in a small, windowless dining room where the menu gravitates toward the cuisine of Friuli, Italy, with some modest updating and some digressions here and there.
Sterne's digressions — also used by the many he influenced, among them Denis Diderot in "Jacques the Fatalist and His Master" and the Brazilian Machado de Assis in "Epitaph for a Small Winner" — were one way.
I'll come back to that, but first a bit of a digression.
He then began a description of the Masonic part of his father's funeral service, but went astray almost immediately with a digression on the importance of the Masons and the Elks and the Woodmen of the World and similar fraternal orders in the night life of small towns, which he interrupted at one point for a subsidiary digression on the subject of life insurance.
