We move along quickly, then get sidetracked by dense, digressive scenes.
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In the first half, especially, Mr. Dodin emphasizes the dilatory and digressive.
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Twice, we're treated to a digressive, informational "Brief History" of minor characters.
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The roads are digressive in character, rarely traveling directly to a specific location.
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To an extent, Trump makes this rambling, digressive mode of talking work for him.
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It's digressive, meandering and entirely charming — her comics read like a letter one treasures.
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Mr. Lipman's sensibility, by contrast, is expansive and digressive, attracted to loftiness and sweep.
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She is also relentlessly digressive — one of the truest signs of robust self-regard.
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As the whisky took effect, masters' comments became digressive, and the poets became funnier.
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BAM concludes its remarkable Leslie Thornton retrospective with a hefty pairing of digressive, serious works.
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The installations and area's otherworldly, strange design is conceptually intrinsic to the digressive fun had there.
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A seated Mr. Corbett often delivered a seemingly straightforward joke that meandered into a digressive monologue.
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Nor can I abide playful meta-fiction, digressive autofiction or anything that's coy with its charms.
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"It is digressive, jokey, giddily brutal and ferociously profane," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
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Many story lines have become redundant, digressive or inconsistent, instead of building suspense or bolstering thematic resonance.
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Most of the novel's digressive scenes are pared away, and on occasion the compression comes at a cost.
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But we caught a breeze on a digressive walk around Lady Bird Lake on the edge of downtown.
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It's here where this digressive chapter of "The Leftovers" (sort of) meanders its way back to the main plot.
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"There are absolutely times when the book is mystifying and unbelievably digressive, and you have no idea what's coming next," he said.
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Kassarnig says the topic model in particular needs work; his speeches make digressive leaps from Social Security, say, to National Marine Sanctuaries.
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The narrative follows him as he works toward adulthood, with digressive ruminations on his adolescence, hopes for a girlfriend and youthful ambition.
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This is not a book that wears its knowledge lightly, and the trail is sometimes meandering, littered with digressive pathways and citations.
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Compared with the digressive exuberance of these more densely populated fictions, "Slave Old Man" transpires in a solitude that can be limiting.
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This intelligent, strange, sometimes maddeningly digressive book is, in genre terms, neither fish nor fowl but, rather, some other odd, often delightful animal.
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"There's an incredibly beautiful, digressive, poetic sensibility to Bolaño that we realized we needed to let back in the room," Mr. Bockley said.
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The first is propulsive and plot-driven, adventurous and populist; the second digressive and experimental, written for a highly educated audience of one.
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His diaries—quirky, digressive, indiscreet—chronicle his attempts to build cultural relations in a police state filled with fear, corruption and red tape.
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It is rich in unstable, digressive harmonies—one recurring progression sets F major against C-sharp minor—and clouds of whole-tone tonality.
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It took a while for this digressive movie to get its hooks in me, but once it did, "Sorry Angel" didn't let go.
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Even so, She's Gotta Have It is a treat to watch, especially its small, digressive conversations about gentrification or white privilege or sexual hypocrisy.
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What it does best is capture the stylistic tics: the tasteful digressive scene-setting; the clause-packed sentences; and the painfully knowing, tasteful headlines.
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The title is a giveaway, but these charming, digressive "essayettes," in the manner of Montaigne, surprise and challenge more than a reader might expect.
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This is all while doing stand-up that, in recent years, has laid bare his interest in philosophy, with digressive bits about death and idioms.
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In her lyrical and gently digressive book she analyses, and works to recover, the countering power of her first, elemental, female response to the sea.
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It's the sort of framework that makes sense for expertly constructed diving bells like Breaking Bad ... but not something as intentionally digressive as Mad Men.
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The end result is both spellbinding and frustrating, a paradox of a book that is simultaneously conscientious and careless, engrossing and digressive, troubling and troublesome.
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Meaning plays hide-and-seek with montage in "The Thoughts That Once We Had," Thom Andersen's deeply personal, cheekily digressive dance through most of movie history.
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A slight but crucial difference in María Gainza's appealing and digressive "Optic Nerve" is that the narrator, named María, is, like Gainza, an Argentine art critic.
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Like his National Book Award-nominated novel "An Unnecessary Woman", "The Angel of History" is digressive and daring, presenting the existential drama of a single human life.
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The novel explores the mysteries in a wandering, digressive sort of way, as if to recreate the brain-fog that grips the city in its baffling 20 days.
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The book is a slim, digressive mystery, in which veteran journalists swap anecdotes about the bizarre case of a corpse that had no business turning up in their town.
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In this digressive, scathingly funny novel, a middle-aged Spanish man, Joan-Marc Miró-Puig, records the story of his catastrophic first marriage to Helen, an alcoholic from Montana.
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The book comes across as such a cerebral curio that (like Mr. Lerner's thinky and digressive novels, "Leaving the Atocha Station" and "10:04") it's almost impossible to describe.
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This results in the second half of the book, which is perhaps best characterized as a set of digressive, expansive essays interspersed with the resolution of the Dick narrative.
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The writing itself seems tipsy: It can be energetic, colorful, fun, buzzy, affecting and spot on, but also loose, sloppy, digressive and excessively poetized at moments, veering into nebulous grandiosity.
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Holtz is a wiry man with a lined face, a Brooklyn accent—he grew up in Sheepshead Bay—and a digressive speaking style that his colleagues like to josh about.
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Aaliya, who has (for her own pleasure) translated 37 books into Arabic over a half-century, delivers a long, delightfully digressive, conspiratorial monologue that takes one bookish detour after another.
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In a show that sounds less like a monologue and more like a job for Marie Kondo, Kitson attempts a digressive catalog of the 83,000-some possessions in his home.
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In a show that sounds less like a monologue and more like a job for Marie Kondo, Kitson attempts a digressive catalog of the 2212,2719-some possessions in his home.
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In the writer and illustrator Maira Kalman's latest project, she narrates a morning workout at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that exemplifies her digressive spirit and openness to new ideas.
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Many of his books take the form of digressive monologues — the novel "Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age" famously unfurls in one 90-page sentence — by stouthearted, simple-minded narrators.
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" Delbanco considered Melville more of a New Yorker than any other American writer, so much so that reading the endlessly digressive Melville is "like strolling, or browsing, on a city street.
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Other memories will follow — anecdotes, personal asides, funny or sad little stories within the story — and it can all seem digressive, until the methodical obsessiveness of Murnane's self-interrogation becomes clear.
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Each of the short chapters precisely details a specific moment of realization, however wayward and, at times, harrowing, that the author experienced on his bumpy, digressive path to becoming a writer.
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As a result, the narrative has a frustratingly digressive pace, though even when we feel we've wandered far from the central path the writer's lucid style persuades us to stick with him.
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Instead, he has plowed through the six volumes of her memoirs on our behalf, repeatedly warning that they are "chatty" and digressive — a bit like a fond nephew apologizing for a dotty aunt.
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His comics — loosely illustrated, digressive, at times extremely sexual — are stranger than many in China's indie comics scene, and his paintings are more story-driven and playful than a great deal of his contemporaries.
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When Bannon took over the Trump campaign as CEO, Trump gave up his free-flowing digressive campaign rants and instead offered much more coherent "America First" speeches, which clearly came from Bannon and Miller.
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In contrast to the poetry of Red Flash, which presents a fast-moving flow of surreal and digressive collages, the more purely lyrical discourse of Dark Church is structured and modulated by repeating couplets.
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Perhaps the closest analogue would be the notorious improvisatory "talk poems" of the late David Antin, in which the poet and art historian would perform unscripted and charmingly digressive monologues on a host of subjects.
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SZALAI I admired Gilbert King's "Devil in the Grove" (2012) so much that I expected a lot from his follow-up, "Beneath a Ruthless Sun," which ended up being too convoluted and digressive to deliver.
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Ghosts, pets and arguments without outcomes: These are reliable telltales of the work of Sarah Ruhl, whose new play, "For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday," includes a long, digressive scene featuring all of them.
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The novel takes the form of a digressive monologue cum missive — without a single chapter break — in which Joan-Marc narrates his wildly passionate years with his Montana-born, blond bombshell of a first wife.
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So it's back to the factoids, the digressive details about ancillary players and the awkwardly shoehorned, slapdash sociological observations ("As it happened, the Sandra Dee-ification of Meg Ryan held a mirror to sexually anxious times").
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Maybe it's that anecdotal nature that makes Lucy in the Sky feel digressive rather than urgent, even knowing that Lucy must eventually confront Mark and another, younger astronaut (Zazie Beetz, immediately reprising her Joker role of "woman").
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CHICAGO — "2003," the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño's darkly enigmatic, wildly digressive, sometimes densely philosophical and above all extremely long final novel, has awed, mesmerized, baffled and exasperated readers around the world since its posthumous publication in 22666.
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While Charles Isherwood wrote that this "grab bag of incidents from Mr. Deblinger's life" does not make for "the most cogently thematic show," he noted that Mr. Deblinger's "high-voltage energy" enlivens even the more digressive moments.
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Cohen, who has published eleven books since 2005, has elicited comparisons to David Foster Wallace, Philip Roth, and Thomas Pynchon, expansive, digressive writers who, much like Snowden himself, have enjoyed praise, weathered backlashes, and garnered cult followings.
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Scholarly, hip, and digressive, the account includes much that will be familiar to Muslims (Muhammad as orphan, refugee, statesman, doting grandfather) but also things that are often elided: his compassion for suicides, his marriage to a nine-year-old.
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Ms. Griffin does not write taut jokes; she emerged from the West Coast alt-comedy scene of the 1990s, when comics were reacting against the machine-gun-joke style of comedy clubs and building acts on digressive stories and conversational riffs.
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He inserts himself into them in the most casually disruptive ways: offering interpretations or digressive asides about the person who first told him the tale in question, or saying that there is more to the story but he has forgotten it.
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Gaiman wrote the series's six episodes himself (Pratchett died in 2015), and in streamlining the book — which was a digressive, more-is-more exercise in the tradition of "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" — he's made the wisest possible choice.
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"I always knew on a gut level it needed to be digressive and unpredictable and slightly out of my control," she said later when we'd left the center and found "the giant Philly cheesesteak," Ms. Schreck, a cheesesteak virgin, had requested.
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The digressive associative style, designed to mimic the insomniac experience, allowed me to expand my inquiry so I could bring in bigger themes: capitalism, the use of stimulants and the experience of other insomniacs, so that it's not just an interior, experiential inquiry.
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A night after delivering his Afghanistan plan in mostly sober, if not particularly illuminating language, President Donald Trump entertained his core supporters in Phoenix with a medley of the fiery, at times petulant and uncannily digressive rhetoric he rode to the White House last year.
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In the sometimes digressive text that followed, he accused American Media of threatening to publish graphic photographs of Mr. Bezos, including a "below-the-belt selfie," if he did not publicly affirm that The Enquirer's reporting on his affair was not motivated by political concerns.
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"Milkman"—told in an unspooling, digressive, and fretfully ruminative manner that bears a rough semblance to stream of consciousness but is much easier to follow—is set in an urban war zone where carrying around plastic explosives seems less aberrant than using the sidewalk as a study.
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She also traveled to the archives, snagging photos of Eberhardt and footage of astronauts on the moon, collaging them with reenactments (some featuring Su Friedrich as one of four Isabelles) and title cards ("The End" at the end) to make this digressive, serious, self-undermined account.
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Over the course of a long, digressive and angry speech, Trump all but promised to pardon former Sheriff Joe Arpaio (he'd follow through a few days later as Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas) and threatened to shut down the government if Congress didn't fund his southern border wall.
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The story meanders, distracted and digressive, looking at everything but the ghost, taking in the chatter at dinner parties, walks with dogs, games with children, the small dissatisfactions of a partner, until you realize that all these drifting, hovering bits of everyday life are, for this sad woman, the ghost.
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Initially published in 2015, to great acclaim, by an independent press in Ireland, "Pond" consists of 20 interconnected stories — though they're more like soliloquies, or digressive meditations — mostly narrated by the same reclusive, unnamed woman living alone in a cottage on what seems to be the west coast of Ireland.
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Kailash's journey toward sexual integration in the West is cast (to quote the author's note) as "a work of fiction as well as nonfiction, an in-between novel by an in-between writer," complete with multiple epigraphs, pictures, footnotes academic and digressive, and both pop-cultural and literary-theoretical references.
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The book has a loose, digressive structure, and its specific plot details — struggling business ventures, intercultural love interests, betrayals, lesbian affairs, end-of-life regrets and, of course, the central, resonating tragedy — can sound a bit soapy in summary, as if the author were trying to cover all the dramatic bases.
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The book takes digressive turns (long walks and talks about art abound) and structural liberties (some of the dialogue among Sheila and her friends, including her painter confidante, Margaux, appears in the form of a play) on the road to both self-discovery and the realization of "the true singularity" of others.
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It's a twisty, digressive tale, beginning with the Moscow computer scientist Alexey Pajitnov thinking about block puzzles in 103, but also encompassing anti-gambling laws in 19th-century Japan, byzantine business deals, the thawing of the Cold War, an explanation of the particular psychological itch that Tetris scratches and a murder-suicide.
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The magnificent opening scene alone — almost a standalone sketch set in a convenience store, featuring a winding conversation between a clerk played by John Hawkes and a Texas Ranger played by Michael Parks — represents "the Tarantino touch" at its best, seeming at first pointlessly digressive, then becoming essential to the film's overall flavor and flow.
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The style can be digressive and occasionally confusing, and I could have done without the more mystical passages concerning Louie Kamookak and the Inuit, in which Watson seems to be reaching for some kind of effect rather than telling us how things really are or were, but it's quick, enjoyable and sometimes gripping reading.
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With the possible exception of his jokes about fatherhood, which are sharp, unsentimental and more economical than the rest of his digressive 70 minutes, Cross's labored new special picks easy targets: Grateful Dead cover bands, hippies, Southerners with thick accents, and Twitter memes (although he does have a good self-deprecating joke about his own failures at tweeting).
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As my eyes negotiated the characteristically digressive paragraphs, with their refinements and hesitations, their pitch-perfect archaisms, I kept picturing Banville at his desk, doggedly piecing them together in an effort of self-erasure that is the exact opposite of the novelist's native inclination, and which, regardless of the beauties produced, must have come with some pain.
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Like this movie, Flynn's books fall into a category you might call anti-middlebrow: packaged as thrillers, written in the knowing pop-cultural cadence of mid-2000s blogs and comprising a disorienting blend of genre influences, they avoid the striving pretensions of bad literary fiction, despite also being fairly dense and containing, sneakily, many of the pleasures of a digressive social novel.
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As a prose writer she is naturally, even obsessively, digressive, and the book's loose, nonlinear form allows her to riff or ruminate on what can seem at times like a maniacal range of subjects, among them alcoholism, feminism, queerness, libraries, the transmigration of souls, the George W. Bush administration, the literal and metaphorical nature of varieties of foam, writers and writing, the art of tapestry, plaid cloth, and the uniforms of U.S. postal workers (Myles's father worked as a mailman).
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In particular, turn to Cather's wonderfully digressive novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop," inspired by the true biography of a French clergyman who arrived in newly annexed New Mexico in the mid-19th century, committed to reforming the church there and to building a cathedral in Santa Fe. (Paul Horgan's biography of the real Catholic bishop, "Lamy of Santa Fe," makes an excellent companion volume.) On Cue My senior year English teacher introduced us to a lot of plays, including three by the 19th-century writer Henrik Ibsen.
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My nightstand is a disaster zone — a perpetually toppling tower — in part because it holds a mixture of books I'm excited to read (Andre Perry's forthcoming essay collection, "Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now"), already beloved books I'm excited to reread (Jamie Quatro's glorious "Fire Sermon," Mary Ruefle's "Madness, Rack, and Honey," Shirley Hazzard's "The Transit of Venus"), and books I've recently read but keep coming back to because I can't shake them and don't want to: Lynn Steger Strong's brilliant upcoming novel, "Want," about friendship and bankruptcy and hunger of all kinds; Mishka Shubaly's achingly felt and darkly funny and strangely luminous memoir, "I Swear I'll Make It Up to You"; Jordan Kisner's piercing essay collection, "Thin Places"; Kate Zambreno's thrillingly digressive lectures in "Appendix Project"; the journalist Jeff Sharlet's aching portraits of ordinary strangers in "This Brilliant Darkness"; Nam Le's recent monograph on David Malouf, which is unbearably, uncomfortably acute on Australianness, artistic liberty, refugee politics, identity and its various tyrannies.
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This lengthy, digressive novel can be seen as in the tradition of Sterne's Tristram Shandy.
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For example, Apikoros Sleuth experimented with a Talmudic form, noted for its polyphonic, discursive, and digressive qualities.
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The book includes descriptions of his earlier friendships with other writers and digressive ruminations on the nature of writing.
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Furthermore, an excursus is often applied to a piece of academic writing to provide digressive information, which does not contribute directly to the line of argument but can still be linked with the overall topic of the text.
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He served there as Chief Scientist for 25 years and retired in 1985. Shigo was known for his digressive and philosophical style when writing and speaking, and for his trademarked phrase, “touch trees,” with which he autographed his books.
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The 19th century US novelist he is most similar in approach to is Mark Twain. With its use of a digressive, unreliable narrator, Furphy's method in Such Is Life can be compared with that of his Brazilian contemporary Machado de Assis.
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Mercer 1971: 6. The novel also contains a forty-page parody in small type of the full text of Oedipus Rex called Taliped Decanus. The digressive play-within-a-book is grossly disproportionate to the length of the book, parodying both Sophocles and Freud.
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The poem is often described as digressive. It is a composition that marks a temporary shift of a subject; the digression ends when the plot returns to the main topic. Furthermore, Słowacki has intentionally used digression to create a somewhat rhetorical meaning to the text.
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As with much early Irish literature, the digressive onomastic and genealogical material is of great value. In particular, one passage describes a Déisi branch settling in Britain and founding the Kingdom of Dyfed, a matter of some interest in the context of early Irish migrations to Britain.
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Literary scholar Bridget G. MacCarthy gave a modern-day view criticism of Croker's dodging his way out of attributing the effort of collaborators., e.g. "since the stories were well-known folk-tales, Croker had a loop-hole of escape", p. 551; "very digressive and confusing description", p.
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The highly digressive style Milton employs in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso dually precludes any summary of the poems' dramatic action as it renders them interpretively ambiguous to critics. However, it can surely be said that the vision of poetic inspiration offered by the speaker of Il Penseroso is an allegorical exploration of a contemplative paradigm of poetic genre.
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Roman de la Rose Digital Library. Accessed 13 November 2012. In it, a man becomes enamored with an individual rose on a rosebush, attempting to pick it and finally succeeding. The rose represents the female body, but the romance also contains lengthy digressive "discussions on free will versus determinism as well as on optics and the influence of heavenly bodies on human behavior".
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But Nashe also portrays Pierce as something of an arrogant and prodigal fool. The story is told in a style that is complex, witty, fulminating, extemporaneous, digressive, anecdotal, filled with wicked descriptions, and peppered with newly minted words and Latin phrases. The satire can be mocking and bitingly sharp, and at times Nashe’s style seems to relish its own obscurity.’’The Columbia Encyclopedia.’’ Columbia University Press.
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Wessel's poems and plays are frequently satirical and humorous. His literary style is deliberate elaborate and digressive and at the same time elegant and witty. Another genre is the epigram that he mastered, especially his short, witty, impudent, precise and also self-ironic commemorative poems. Wessel is known first of all for his many humorous and satiric verse tales referring to man's foolishness and injustice.
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Dryden converted to Catholicism more or less simultaneously with the accession of the Roman Catholic king James II in 1685, to the disgust of many Protestant writers.H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (eds.) The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) vol. 16, p. 1023; Anne Cotterill Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) p.
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The novel is divided into two plots. One of them consists of contemporary events, limited to one ordinary day, filled with reflection and thoughts of the protagonist. They are an introduction to and an excuse for the second plot – the retrospective and digressive one. In conclusion, the book tells the story of one particular day, and – in the meantime – also tells the whole story of the life of Róża Żabczyńska.
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The novel was praised for its originality and linguistic virtuosity. Critics cited Baker's trademark style of highly descriptive, focused prose, his "fierce attention to detail," and his delight in portraying discrete slices of time within the frame of mundane existence. The Mezzanine created the genre of digressive, annotational metafiction for which Baker is best known, and of which he may be the boldest representative. The academic website eNotes.
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Normal conditions are a restriction on philosophical arguments, especially in epistemology, in order to avoid objections perceived as digressive. As a reply to objections to an explanation of a phenomenon, e.g. a hypothesis or a theory, it is said, argument X holds [only] under normal conditions. In some cases, the concept of normal conditions tends to be rather blurred and the reply under normal conditions can tend to extend to everything that contradicts an argument.
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The Lanercost Chronicle is a northern English history covering the years 1201 to 1346. It covers the Wars of Scottish Independence, but it is also highly digressive and as such provides insights into English life in the thirteenth century as well as Scottish life. It includes Robert the Bruce. A. G. Little concluded that the chronicle is basically a Franciscan chronicle, which has been adapted, abbreviated, and interpolated at the Augustinian Lanercost Priory.
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Hatch xxxiv. Martial Kokroa Frindéthié comments that "Francophone African expressive prose is very digressive and repetitive", and illustrates this with citations from "The Pitcher", one of the stories involving an orphan—in this case, a boy, Koffi, who broke his stepmother's pitcher and is forced to leave home. The ideas of leaving and suffering are repeated in consecutive paragraphs; the paragraphs have recurring coordinate sentences, and the sentences have recurring verb clusters.Frindéthié 46–48.
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I much prefer to take my erotic fantasies raw. They are more nutritious that way." Graham Hough was also unimpressed, beginning his review in the London Review of Books by stating: "Even to Iris Murdoch fans, of whom I am one of the most constant, Nuns and Soldiers will be a disappointment. It is a long solid book, purposely digressive, and there is a good deal of hard slogging before we get to the main theme.
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UK edition A Personal Record is an autobiographical work (or "fragment of biography") by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912. It has also been published under the titles A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences and Some Reminiscences. Notoriously unreliable and digressive in structure, it is nonetheless the principal contemporary source for information about the author's life. It tells about his schooling in Russian Poland, his sailing in Marseille, the influence of his Uncle Tadeusz, and the writing of Almayer's Folly.
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Some, like Bouvy and Krumbacher, place him among the greatest hymn-writers of all times; others, like Cardinal Pitra, are more conservative. For a final judgment a complete edition of the hymns is needed. Compared to Latin church poets such as Ambrose and Prudentius, his surviving works tend towards a more rhetorically flowery, digressive, and dogmatic verse. He is fond of symbolic pictures and figures of speech, antitheses, assonances, especially witty jeux d'esprit, which contrast with his characteristic simplicity of diction and construction.
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MacLeod described the book as being focused on the 1910s, 1940s, and 1960s through 1980s, "loosely structured around multiple cycles of tentative reform". Diamond stated that there is very little content about the 1980s and 1990s, and that the scope of the book is "more limited" than what the title would suggest. According to MacLeod, many of the paragraphs come from "disparate" topics and are very long, and that a reader may be confused by "digressive passages" and "abrupt shifts of focus".
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The digression was also used for non-satiric purposes in fiction. In Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, the author has numerous asides and digressive statements that are a side-fiction, and this sort of digression within chapters shows up later in the work of Charles Dickens, Machado de Assis, William Makepeace Thackeray, Herman Melville, Victor Hugo and others. The novels of Leo Tolstoy, J.D. Salinger, Marcel Proust, Henry Miller, Milan Kundera and Robert Musil are also full of digressions.
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Little has been written on the contributions by Montgomery or Brewster. According to Mazzeo, Montgomery's biographies, which draw a picture of the subject's character and incorporate autobiographical material, are written in a "digressive though not unengaging manner". He is less concerned with factual accuracy, although he identifies his sources, and more interested in developing "extended parallels between Italian and English literature". Brewster includes descriptions of 16th-century scientific experiments in his formally written biography of Galileo, as well as information on other Renaissance natural philosophers.
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Leuchtturm des Chaos ( or Lighthouse of Chaos) is a 1983 documentary profile of the American actor Sterling Hayden (1916 – 1986). The film features discussions with Hayden concerning his life and career, intercut with clips and stills from his films. It follows the actor through several long and digressive afternoon conversations with the German filmmakers aboard the barge in France on which he was living. Hayden smokes hashish and drinks heavily throughout, telling the filmmakers that they "have a record of exactly what alcoholism is".
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This group of users can be split into three categories. Firstly, bots, which are software applications “that run automated tasks or scripts over the Internet” . Secondly, trolls, which are people who bicker or agitate other users with the aim of distracting and ruining relationships between people. They generally do this by posting provocative, digressive or irrelevant messages in order to instigate other users to respond with strong emotional content. The last category is cyborgs which are accounts that are registered by humans as a cover in order to run “automated programs performing online activities” .
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8, The Publication of Tristram Shandy: Volumes I and II, p.179 Sterne's novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman sold widely in England and throughout Europe. Translations of the work began to appear in all the major European languages almost upon its publication, and Sterne influenced European writers as diverse as Denis Diderot and the German Romanticists. His work had also noticeable influence over Brazilian author Machado de Assis, who made use of the digressive technique in the novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas.
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Soon after it was released, the book was panned by critics. One of the frequently mentioned problems with the book was that it lacked the extensive editing that his previous article about Shelley had been given. Critics viewed his larger work as often digressive and full of tangents, and some lamented the significant amount of space that Hogg devoted to describing the meals that they ate together. Others pointed out that the book did not contain the novel insights about Shelley and his poetry that Shelley at Oxford had delivered.
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Published on the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin Now is a story of how Berlin has changed since reunification to become Europe's most vibrant melting-pot of artists, immigrants and entrepreneurs. Berlin Now is described as a "longtime Berliner's bright, bold, and digressive exploration of the heterogeneous allure of this vibrant city." The book combines memoir, history, anecdote and reportage on subjects as diverse as the differences between the sex lives of former East and West Berliners to the present-day hidden quirks of the city.
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Reviews for My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done have been mixed. , the film holds a 49% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 41 reviews with an average rating of 5.76/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Enigmatic and digressive, this mystical potboiler possesses director Werner Herzog's penchant for offbeat atmosphere, but lacks the absurdist humor and profundity that makes his previous trips into madness compelling." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 59 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
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In spite of the letter being addressed directly to D'Alembert, it is undoubtedly meant to have an effect on the general population. The work is famous for displaying Rousseau's charismatic rhetoric and digressive tendencies, all with his personal experience woven into the text. It may be considered to portray Rousseau's vanity, narcissism and biases, but the text could also be thought of more positively; as expressive, lyrical and austere. The Letter shows Rousseau's tendency to think of the events in his own life as highly significant, as reflections of the larger social picture.
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Yamas, states the Upanishad, are that which lead to detachment from being driven by the body, while Niyamas are that which lead to continuous attachment to the ultimate truth. The asana (posture) is that which yields stillness and passivity to all things. Pratyahara is that which empowers one to focus the mind inwards, while Dharana is that which stills the mind from jumping from one digressive thought to another. Dhyana, the text defines as the perfect reflection of self as absolute consciousness and "Soham", while Samadhi is when this too is dissolved within.
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The researchers also found that each rumor went through a four-stage pattern of development in which a rumor was introduced for discussion, information was volunteered and discussed, and finally a resolution was drawn or interest was lost. For the study, archived discussions concerning rumors on the internet and other computer networks such as BITnet were retrieved. As a rule, each discussion had a minimum of five statements posted over a period of at least two days. The statements were then coded as being one of the following: prudent, apprehensive, authenticating, interrogatory, providing information, belief, disbelief, sensemaking, digressive, or uncodable.
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Critic Jason Heller remarked that "joy—of singing and playing, of thinking and dancing, of listening and wondering—renders almost every page a song." In addition, he wrote, "Byrne’s knack for paradox and passion carries his erratic narrative." The Washington Post critic Tim Page commented, "This is a decidedly generous book—welcoming, informal, digressive, full of ideas and intelligence—and one has the pleasant sense that Byrne is speaking directly to the reader, sharing a few confidences he has picked up over the years." Stating that "Byrne has plenty of smart things to say about pop music", Page lauded the "ambitious" work.
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While under Willis, he wrote a digressive Memoir of Menteath, dated from internal evidence to the years 1772–4. Menteath appears in Miller's Memoir as "Jacobus Montaltus", a Latinised version of his name. Annotations by Menteath state that he and Miller were close friends, from 1737 (when they overlapped at the University of Oxford, at St Mary Hall) to 1780 when Miller died. The Memoir states that Menteath was promised the Barrowby living from 1745, by Sackville Tufton, 7th Earl of Thanet and his wife; the incumbent was Thomas Wood, who held it from 1732 to 1759.
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Shklovsky, Письма внуку. Shklovsky integrated into Soviet society and even took part in the Russian Civil War, serving in the Red Army. However, in 1922, he had to go into hiding once again, as he was threatened with arrest and possible execution for his former political activities, and he fled via Finland to Germany. In Berlin, in 1923, he published his memoirs about the period 1917–22 under the title Сентиментальное путешествие, воспоминания (Sentimental'noe puteshestvie, vospominaniia, A Sentimental Journey), alluding to A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne, an author he much admired and whose digressive style had a powerful influence on Shklovsky's writing.
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Salvi's mother, Anne Marie Salvi, testified that her son had told her that he "was the thief on the cross with Jesus." A state police detective who sat with the Lowney family during the trial said because it "was clear that Salvi was mentally ill" that the Lowney family almost had empathy for him. The prosecution used the testimony of Bridgewater State Hospital psychologist Joel Haycock, who spent eleven days with Salvi out of his sixty days under observation. Haycock determined that during the time of his observation of Salvi in a hospital setting, Salvi had no hallucinations, could speak in a non-digressive linear way, and was capable of understanding guilt.
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The Mezzanine is essentially plotless, a stream-of-consciousness fiction that examines in detail the lunch-hour activities of young office worker Howie, whose simple lunch (popcorn, hot dog, cookie and milk) and purchase of a new pair of shoelaces are contrasted with his reading of a paperback edition of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. Baker's digressive novel, partly composed of extensive footnotes of up to several pages in length, follows Howie's contemplations of a variety of everyday phenomena, such as how paper milk cartons replaced glass milk bottles, the miracle of perforation, and the buoyant nature of plastic straws; and of everyday objects such as vending machines, paper towel dispensers, and popcorn poppers."Nicholson Baker" (partially locked study guide), eNotes.com.
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Sterne's presence inside the narrative changed the course of traditional novelistic interpretations as his narrative structure digresses through many jumbled and fragmentary events into a non-traditional, dual overlapping plot. These digressive methods reflect his inability to simply explain each event as it occurs, as he frequently interrupts these events with commentary about how the reader should understand and follow each event. He relies heavily on his reader's close involvement to the text and their interpretations of the non-traditional plot. Tristram's presence inside of the narrative as the narrator engages the imagination and his use of visual strategies, such as the marbled and blank pages, reflects the importance of the reader's participation in the novel.
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Unpublished typescript, Southern Illinois University (SIU), Carbondale, IL, U.S.A. Britton nevertheless managed to find work after his imprisonment, for about six years with the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers, the final two as Assistant General Secretary. At the time, Britton had been working on Hunger and Love, the only novel of his ever published, for some years. It is a huge digressive book about the intellectual life and grinding poverty of a teenage bookshop assistant; Bertrand Russell was so impressed with the novel that he wrote a five-page Introduction to it. By the time the novel came out in 1931, Britton had already made the headlines with his first published play, Brain, which received such considerable attention because of Bernard Shaw's generally favourable comments about it.
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In his satirical preface to the reader, Burton's persona and pseudonym "Democritus Junior" explains, "I write of melancholy by being busy to avoid melancholy." This is characteristic of the author's style, which often supersedes the book's strengths as a medical text or historical document as its main source of appeal to admirers. Both satirical and serious in tone, the Anatomy is "vitalized by (Burton's) pervading humour",Émile Legouis, A History of English Literature (1926) and Burton's digressive and inclusive style, often verging on a stream of consciousness, consistently informs and animates the text. In addition to the author's techniques, the Anatomys vast breadth – addressing topics such as digestion, goblins, the geography of America, and others – make it a valuable contribution to multiple research disciplines.
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The school's NCAA Division III teams, most of which are members of the University Athletic Association, are not a major focus on campus today, appearing almost "minimal" in their role on campus to "non-existent" according to students.Princetonreview.com However, in the first half of the twentieth century, the school was a powerhouse in Big Ten Conference play, notably in football where the school won numerous national championships, and produced the very first Heisman Trophy winner, Jay Berwanger. President Robert Maynard Hutchins suspended sports for several years though during his tenure fearing their digressive nature from academic endeavors, ending the prominence of most athletic programs. Today the many programs aim to cultivate the "student- athlete," the emphasis being on balance between the two.
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The most important of these calendars for Ovid were probably the Fasti Praenestini, a contemporary calendar constructed and annotated by the grammarian Verrius Flaccus, whose fragments include much ritual material that can be found in Ovid's poem. The concept of putting these calendars into verse however, seems to be a uniquely Ovidian concept. Besides his use of calendars and astronomical poetry, Ovid's multi-generic, digressive narrative and learned poem depends on the full range of ancient poetry and prose. In this, one of the most important works for Ovid was Callimachus' Aetia; the use of divine interlocutors, elegiac meter, various generic registers, and a focus on explaining the origins of customs and festivals are all significant features of Callimachus' work.
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Formally, the novel is notable because of its lack of paragraphing, a digressive style, the blending of fact and fiction and very long and complex sentences. One such sentence runs to seven and a half pages and combines the history and description of Theresienstadt. It is prompted by Austerlitz's having read the major 1995 study of the ghetto, Theresienstadt 1941-1945: Das Antlitz einer Zwangsgemeinschaft by H. G. Adler, and recounting it to the narrator as they are walking around London, from St Clement's Hospital where Austerlitz had been admitted in 1993 after his arrival at Liverpool Street on his return from Prague. Mysterious and evocative photographs are also scattered throughout the book, enhancing the melancholy message of the text.
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A Kirkus Reviews review of My Soul To Take (1995) said, "Spruill disappoints in his take-that/no- take-that plotting, less reminiscent of Dean Koontz than of Wile E. Coyote". Publishers Weekly wrote, "An intriguing concept--a microchip inserted in the brain to cure blindness that also allows certain recipients to see the future--falls short of its potential in this poorly paced, digressive thriller". About Rulers of Darkness (1998), Publishers Weekly said, "By adding a noir-crime spin to his medical-horror formula, Spruill manages to grab hold of, and ride reasonably high on, the cape-tails of Anne Rice and the current vampire craze". Kirkus Reviews wrote, "Terrific plotting—fresh indeed—and the hospital background shines in a seemingly unresolvable love story".
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He must have lived at the close of the thirteenth and at the beginning of the fourteenth century, and his poem is conjecturally assigned to about the year 1300. It is mostly written in eight-syllable couplets, except in the account of the Passion of Christ, where the author adopts a new meter of alternately rhyming lines of eight and six syllables. The poet considers the Bible to be one of many sources of the history of the church. He focuses on characters: Jesus and Mary are the central figures. According to the preface of The Early English Text Society the Cursor Mundi is a collection of poignant and vivid versions of stories arranged “in an orderly, encyclopedic yet fundamentally digressive manner”.
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They are attractively written, but sometimes show a certain digressive tendency and are sometimes peppered with anecdotes which are not infrequently taken from the author's own life. Schupp's pamphlets can be broadly divided into two types: there are tracts which edify (such as "Die Predigt" ("The sermon"), "Der geplagte Hiob" ("Plagued Job"), "Die Krankenwärterin" ("The nurse"), "die Litanei" and "Golgotha") and there are those which Schupp himself classified as "political writings" which were primarily focused on public issues. These frequently demonstrate an engaging interplay of the frivolous and the serious. There are many instances of savage satire attacking public grievances, such as pennalism (abusive exploitation unequal employer:apprentice/student relations) and idiocies in universities and schools, systems and the hankering after what is new and "strange".
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The poem's main merit lies in its comparison of English and Italian morals, arguing that the English aversion to adultery is mere hypocrisy in light of the probably shocking, but more honest, custom of the Cavalier Servente in Italy. In comparison to Byron's Oriental Tales of 1813, it suggests that a looser attitude towards morals may be more pragmatic. The poem manifests a number of typical Byronic qualities, like the digressive structure and the use of satirical jabs at targets familiar to Byron's readership, such as literate women and as well as other poets (including Robert Southey, who appears as "Botherby"). As he does in major poems like Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan, in Beppo Byron mixes fictional elements with autobiographical ones.
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" For NPR, Jason Sheehan gave a mixed review, saying, "it's a big book, a digressive book, and it contains so much that it sometimes feels (like Diana Hunter's house is supposed to feel) like a museum of curiosities trapped between two covers and shaken vigorously. You can't help but be hooked by a detail here, a tic of recursive language there, until suddenly, you know things about Isis, ocean water or the Thames that you never thought would be interesting until Harkaway dangled them in front of you." For Tor.com, Niall Alexander gave a very positive review. "its vast canvas takes in tales of inexplicable ancient history, our appallingly prescient present and, fittingly, the far flung future, all of which orbit Gnomon’s central Orwellian thread like spy satellites on an imminent collision course.
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Srdić's second novel, Satori, was published in 2013 by the KrR (Rašić Literary Workshop) publishing house. The sole narrator, referring to himself as the Driver, walks out of the city and his social roles, reminiscing and encountering people on the fringes of society, offering thus a digressive, disjointed narrative, with a sense of solipsistic horror exposed through the characters' language. "Not a novel that isn’t about anything, but one that is about nothing", it also deals with banality and anxiety of/and freedom, with a focus on the narrator’s contacts with the military, even obliquely addressing the repercussions of war crimes (“the existence of PTSD even in those who weren’t directly involved in the war”). The novel contains page long quotations of Oblomov, Sentimental Education and an interview with Kayo Dot's Toby Driver.
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Henke, Suzette, James Joyce and the Politics of Desire, page 185, Joyce himself tacitly acknowledged this radically different approach to language and plot in a 1926 letter to Harriet Weaver, outlining his intentions for the book: "One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot." Critics have seen a precedent for the book's plot presentation in Laurence Sterne's famously digressive The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, with Thomas Keymer stating that "Tristram Shandy was a natural touchstone for James Joyce as he explained his attempt "to build many planes of narrative with a single esthetic purpose" in Finnegans Wake".Keymer, Thomas. Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy: A Casebook, Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Margaret Drabble (eds.) The Oxford Companion to English Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) p. 372. In modern times The Fool of Quality's rambling and digressive structure, and the sentimental extravagances which it shares with other novels of sensibility, have prevented it from reaching a wide readership. Many would agree with the critic who, in 1806, noted that > an unnatural elevation is given to the most trifling circumstances and > sentiments; every emotion is a rapture or an agony, every person seems to be > the deity of the moment who attracts all eyes and all hearts; in short, we > are in another world.Thomas Reynell, in Leigh Hunt (ed.) Classic Tales, > Serious and Lively: With Critical Essays on the Merits and Reputation of the > Authors (London: John Hunt & Carew Reynell, 1806-1807) vol.
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John Harmon of Syracuse University reviewed Gasper's book for the English Studies journal, describing it as "crisply researched" and "eminently readable" although thought that she argued "somewhat defensively" that scholars should take Dekker's work more seriously. Reviewing the book for The Review of English Studies, T. H. Howard-Hill of the University of South Carolina noted that despite the work's title, it did not examine all of Dekker's 26 plays but only a selection of them. While noting that the work was "thoroughly researched, well documented, and densely written", Hill also opined that it was "disjointed, digressive, repetitive, and rambling" and felt that it did not "convincingly illustrate Decker's militant Protestant orientation" in some of the plays that she had discussed. In 2013 the University of Delaware Press published her book Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica: The Man behind the Legend.
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The poem was answered by a flurry of hostile pamphlets, the best- known being The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse by Matthew Prior and Charles Montagu, which ridiculed the incongruity of animals debating theology: > Is it not as easie to imagine two Mice bilking Coachmen, and supping at the > Devil; as to suppose a Hind entertaining the Panther at a Hermit's Cell, > discussing the greatest Mysteries of Religion? Quoted in Anne Cotterill > Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature (Oxford: Oxford > University Press, 2004) pp. 218–21 The satirist Tom Brown rhetorically asked "How can he stand up for any mode of Worship, who hath been accustomed to bite, and spit his Venom against the very Name thereof?".James Kinsley (ed.) John Dryden: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge, 1996) p. 187.
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Gill's richness of competing English versions of the one original has been seen as a distinct advance on earlier renderings of Japanese poetry, while his digressive style, often original but somewhat diffuse, can distract and, Kern argues, make too much demands on the reader's time. Gill's work has been neglected by area scholarly journals and Japanology in particular, perhaps, as Adam Kern, Professor of Japanese Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests, because the author flaunts his unconventional approach, and appears to present his translations and commentaries in a style that suggests he is an ' entertainer or agent provocateur or playful self-promoter. Kern's view is, that despite several idiosyncrasies of personal style and formatting that render his approach trying to readers, Gill's works > may ... be preferable, even with all their quirks, to the preponderance of > academic translations of Edo-period comic poetry.
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An example of an interconnected inner story is "The Mad Trist" in Edgar Allan Poe's Fall of the House of Usher, where through somewhat mystical means the narrator's reading of the story within a story influences the reality of the story he has been telling, so that what happens in "The Mad Trist" begins happening in "The Fall of the House of Usher". Also, in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, there are many stories within the story that influence the hero's actions (there are others that even the author himself admits are purely digressive). A commonly independently anthologised story is "The Grand Inquisitor" by Dostoevsky from his long psychological novel The Brothers Karamazov, which is told by one brother to another to explain, in part, his view on religion and morality. It also, in a succinct way, dramatizes many of Dostoevsky's interior conflicts.
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Although the Encyclopédie was Diderot's most monumental product, he was the author of many other works that sowed nearly every intellectual field with new and creative ideas. Diderot's writing ranges from a graceful trifle like the Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre (Regrets for my Old Dressing Gown) up to the heady D'Alembert's Dream (Le Rêve de d'Alembert) (composed 1769), a philosophical dialogue in which he plunges into the depths of the controversy as to the ultimate constitution of matter and the meaning of life. Jacques le fataliste (written in 1773, but not published until 1792 in German and 1796 in French) is similar to Tristram Shandy and The Sentimental Journey in its challenge to the conventional novel's structure and content.Jacques Smietanski, Le Réalisme dans Jacques le Fataliste (Paris: Nizet, 1965); Will McMorran, The Inn and the Traveller: Digressive Topographies in the Early Modern European Novel (Oxford: Legenda, 2002).
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In Joe Gould's Secret (1965), Mitchell expanded upon two earlier New Yorker profiles, “Professor Sea Gull” (1942) and “Joe Gould’s Secret” (1964), concerning Joe Gould, an eccentric bohemian living in New York City. Following Gould's death, Mitchell embarks on a search for the massive book Gould had long claimed to be writing, An Oral History of Our Time. Mitchell soon learns that the purportedly nine-million-word work of oral history does not exist. However, he finds that Gould is a popular and central figure within a number of New York circles. Extending Mitchell's abiding concerns with the anti-hero and the New York landscape,Joe Gould’s Secret also captures the essence of Gould's non-existent oral history by preserving the life and voice of Joe Gould. Gould's writing is digressive and self-referential; however, Mitchell's writing in Joe Gould’s Secret diverges from his previous works.
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In a subsequent exchange of letters with Duesberg, Horton wrote that while the central role of HIV in the development of immunodeficiency was established by epidemiological and laboratory evidence, Duesberg was correct to predict that "the virus alone is not enough to explain all aspects of the immunodeficiency process." Epstein considered the book "readable and engaging ... though at times digressive and in need of a stronger editorial hand." He found Duesberg to be at his most appealing when criticizing the "mores and customs of the modern, commercialized world of Big Science", but wrote that Duesberg's "incautious hyperbole" detracted from the presentation. He criticized Duesberg for the way he responded to "new evidence and contrary arguments", giving as an example the way Duesberg repeated the claim that "HIV is found in far too few blood cells of AIDS patients to be a plausible destroyer of the immune system" despite more recent evidence showing "much higher blood levels of the virus".
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In Now and Then Buechner reflects on the themes that run through the Bebb novels. Concerning his departure into a first person narrative and the injection of comedy into his prose, the author writes: > [F]or the first time as a novelist I used the device of a first-person > narrator, and although Antonio Parr was by no means simply myself in thin > disguise – our lives had been very different; we had different > personalities, different ways of speaking – just to have a person telling > his own story in a rather digressive, loose-jointed way was extremely > liberating to me as a writer. For the first time I felt free to be funny in > ways that I hadn't felt comfortable being in print before, to let some of my > saltier-tongued characters use language that before had struck me as less > than seemly in a serious work of fiction, to wander off into quirkish > reminiscences and observations that weren't always directly related to my > central purpose.Buechner, Frederick (1983).
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The radio program Powertalk hosted by Lorraine Jacques-White called Hidden Colors "eye-opening and necessary." A review of Hidden Colors 2 published in The Village Voice dismissed much of the documentary as conspiracy, saying that Nasheed demonstrates "a seeming total inability to separate gibble-gabble from revealed truth, vital social concern from talk about Chemtrails and digressive subchapters with titles like 'The Hidden Truth About Santa Claus.'" The reviewer praised one contributor, Michelle Alexander, who the Voice noted was the only woman in the film, saying that "Her well-reasoned discussion of the American penal system is compelling, but it's an embarrassment that she should be placed alongside the likes of Dr. Phil Valentine, a metaphysician whose malarkey about AIDS ("the so-called immunity system of the homosexual") is a low point, as is Umar Johnson's lionization of the late, unlamented Gaddafi and the odd nostalgia for segregation that runs throughout." BET described the series as "one of the most successful Black independent documentaries".
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He called the first four issues "brilliant", repeatedly lauding their consistent excellence from month to month, and naming the series one of Marvel's best comics, saying the first issue was the best one of the year thus far. Evans described Gillen's child Loki story as "perfection", and hailed Gillen's ability to tie in seemingly digressive elements as thematically relevant, his issue structure and his facility for narration and dialogue, as well as the humor, adventure and characterization. Evans called Braithwaite’s art and Ulises Arreola’s colors "stunning" and "epic", finding it to be on a higher level than other comics art, and comparable to that found in a fantasy storybook, which he felt made the Asgardian environment seem "immense, important, and full of life." Evans and D.S. Arsenault gave a "B+" to issues 626 and 630, respectively, with Evans that despite being "absolutely fantastic", his grade was due simply to the exceptionally high standard set by the prior issues, and that Surtur and the troika of Try, Leah and the Disir not as interesting.
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In > deliberate emulation of John Gould who, more than a century ago, based The > Birds of Australia upon a collection of elegant lithographs, our books are > based upon illustrations of birds that have been captured in action by the > camera. The illustrations come first and the text is a digressive commentary > aimed at readers who may have no commitment to birds. This is not to say > that we eschew detail or accuracy; merely that we put details aside into > synopses for consultation by those who require such information. Our > “Twentieth-century Gould” is designed as much for dipping into as for > reading.”Strahan (1987), p.xi. Strahan says in his foreword to the final volume in the series: > ”In addition to creating an administrative basis for the project, Trounson’s > main contribution was to recruit a uniquely comprehensive photographic > coverage of the birds of Australia, calling upon the resources of virtually > every wildlife photographer – professional or amateur – in the > nation.”Strahan (1996), p.v. > ”Altogether, some 40 people have been responsible for the creation of the > series, which comprises almost 4000 pages.
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