Though Sunday's episode at first appears to be a departure from how "Enlightened" usually does things (Amy is barely in it), the digression actually fits in perfectly with the show's themes, which have to do with the difficulty of truly changing who you are and how you relate to the world.
"Fractured Bones/Let's Get Lost" borrows from Godard's sci-fi noir "Alphaville" and the digression in "The Maltese Falcon" about Flitcraft, the man who leaves his family and life style for nearly identical ones, in a strenuous performance about tough-guy existentialism and the impulse to disappear.
"In terms of the digressions, that's largely the way I think," he says.
Diodorus also extensively praises Themistocles, going as far as to offer a rationale for the length at which he discusses him: "Now on the subject of the high merits of Themistocles, even if we have dwelt over-long on the subject in this digression, we believed it not seemly that we should leave his great ability unrecorded".
Other features, however, recall the "Menippean" satire; these features include the mixture of prose and verse in which the work is composed; and the digressions in which the author airs his own views on various topics having no connection with the plot.
This can make the digressions in her work frustrating.
"Therefore, in the end, no digression can digress from the subject: in Sterne's novel, digression is impossible".
In his discursive 1910 autobiography, "The Digressions of V.: Written for His Own Fun and That of His Friends," he described the Egyptian countryside as "beautiful, simple and grand".
(I'll admit I much preferred the Yanagihara, and agreed with the New York Times's devastating review of the Clegg: "This is one of those novels in which digression piles upon digression until the digressions become the thing itself").
