Digression

a temporary departure from the main subject

Henry Snow

Henry Snow

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down with endnotes renormalize footnotes. huge footnotes. not those ones that are just reading lists, that's what a bibliography is for, I mean discourse-packed messy source digression half the page eighteenth-century footnotes

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Erik Halvorsen

Erik Halvorsen

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“Trump wanders off into odd tangents — an 8-minute ramble at a Christmas reception about poisonous snakes, a long digression during a cabinet meeting about Sharpies, interrupting an Iran update to praise the White House drapes. He has confused Greenland with Iceland”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/us/politics/trump-mental-fitness-25th-amendment.html

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THE GOOD OIL

THE GOOD OIL

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The word for today is…

excursion (noun) -

1a: a going out or forth : expedition
b(1): a usually brief pleasure trip
(2): a trip at special reduced rates
2: deviation from a direct, definite, or proper course, especially : digression
3: a movement outward and back or from a mean position or […]

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