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These moments of digression let air into the plot.
There is, however, another kind of digression in this book that is less successful.
It's the combination of digression and disengagement that puzzles the most.
Nonetheless, Cleaver can't get the book out of his head: "My father... was the supreme master of digression".
Large sections of "Miniatures" also turn into what Fern herself calls a "digression suspended upon the tail of digression".
As with "Driving Mr. Albert," this book highlights Mr. Paterniti's excessive love of digression, which undermines faith that the main story is strong enough to captivate readers.
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It was full of digressions; there were digressions that led to other digressions, and there were digressions within digressions.
But there was room in his mind for plenty of digressions.
This he achieved by means of digressions skillfully worked into his main narrative.
Also, they give the discursive Mr. Cetera a whole new source of digressions and asides.
It is full of digressions, forgotten east London characters, and details about local bus routes.
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