When I began writing my own novel, I found myself constantly having to rein in digressions trying to include them all. 5. Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare When I was in college, a friend asked me to direct this "problem play" set during the Trojan war.
Campbell writes amusingly about London's neighbourhoods and snobberies, and in digressions about football's cultural hegemony and the pricing structure of strip clubs.
Speaking on the eve of the film's London premiere, Bose launches into a five-minute discourse, rich in digressions and asides.
The only concessions to conventional history come in digressions, as in the account of his mother's departure and death, when the ramifications of the system and its long ghastly tentacles are explored.
White at this time, like other gay artists before him, treasured the baroque aesthetic for its moral ambivalence, for making "little distinction between ornament and substance" – feelings hidden in digressions, in the expressive uncurling of a metaphor.
Rather, imagination is displayed in nonfictional prose in the fanciful invention of decorative details, in digressions practiced as an art and assuming a character of pleasant nonchalance, in establishing a familiar contact with the reader through wit and humour.
As Alex unravels the mystery of predatory capitalism gone viral, the author revels in digressions on the operation of financial markets and Darwin's theory of natural selection, in which "old forms will be supplanted by new and improved forms".
As Brooks follows Harold and Erica from childhood to retirement, and describes the other people they interact with, he weaves in digressions on everything from IQ to the unconscious, toddler development to school discipline, management fads to modern political campaigning.
As the novel continues, it becomes more and more caught up in digressions, such that the original narrative line is apparently forgotten.
