"Therefore, in the end, no digression can digress from the subject: in Sterne's novel, digression is impossible".
In one of his typical yeasty digressions in "The End of Ideology," he wrote: "The scholar has a bounded field of knowledge, a tradition, and seeks to find his place in it, adding to the accumulated, tested knowledge of the past as to a mosaic.
The second, and much longer, section of this book is a series of autobiographical reflections on the preceding narrative: digressions on the End of History and Hegel, on his refusal to participate fully in the Paris demonstrations of May 1968, on his travels and his intellectual mentors.
These moments of digression let air into the plot.
Large sections of "Miniatures" also turn into what Fern herself calls a "digression suspended upon the tail of digression".
There is, however, another kind of digression in this book that is less successful.
Kozol says that in the past he would skip such digressions, but "now it seems to be the moments of digression I remember with most interest later on".
It's the combination of digression and disengagement that puzzles the most.
Similarly, Andy shares A-ROD's lack of digression and media training.
An account and description, with irresistible digressions, of the remote end of Arabia, where people live on mountaintops and the author makes his home.
