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Consequently, he can no more construct a sound allegory than he can finish his digressions without losing control ( eventually confessing that he is insane ).
According to Hong Kong film critic Perry Lam, writing in Muse magazine, ' unpredictable digressions and swift changes of scene can evoke a dreamer's logic, but his sound and images are always sharp and particular.

digressions and be
Yet after long and earnest discussion Stalin accepted the Curzon Line and even agreed voluntarily that there should be digressions from that line of five to eight kilometers in favor of Poland in some regions.
Joseph Campbell, in A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, also believed Earwicker to be the dreamer, but considered the narrative to be the observances of, and a running commentary by, an anonymous pedant on Earwicker's dream in progress, who would interrupt the flow with his own digressions.
While many kitchen shows tend to be formulaic, the success of this programme was in its offbeat, poetic digressions of the knowledgeable Pinard.
When source novels have exposition or digressions from the author's own voice, a film adaptation may create a commenting, chorus-like character to provide what could not be filmed otherwise.

digressions and two
The Attack upon Plato and the treatise On Piety, which are sometimes referred to as separate works, were perhaps only two of the many digressions in the history of Philip ; some writers have doubted their authenticity.
The show features the two hosts sitting on a couch on-stage and responding to questions from the audience — at times rather seriously, but usually with bizarre digressions into satirical comedy.
The majority of þættir occur in two compendious manuscripts, Morkinskinna and Flateyjarbók, and within them most are found as digressions within kings ' sagas.

digressions and themes
The Latin style was heavily influenced by Cicero, and involved a strong emphasis on a broad education in all areas of humanistic study ( in the liberal arts, including philosophy ), as well as on the use of wit and humor, on appeal to the listener's emotions, and on digressions ( often used to explore general themes related to the specific topic of the speech ).
In rondo form, a principal theme ( sometimes called the " refrain ") alternates with one or more contrasting themes, generally called " episodes ," but also occasionally referred to as " digressions " or " couplets.

digressions and history
A far more elaborate work was the history of Philip's reign ( 360 ‑ 336 ), with digressions on the names and customs of the various races and countries of which he had occasion to speak, which were so numerous that Philip V of Macedon reduced the bulk of the history from 58 to 16 books by cutting out those parts which had no connection with Macedonia.
Ethnographical and geographical digressions were such a feature of the work that it developed the unwarranted reputation of being a universal history, never Trogus ' intention.
These digressions follow a multitude of events and subjects related to history, philosophy and scientific subjects.
The historical digressions in the book touch the profoundest problems of Jewish science ; and it remains their indisputable merit to have paved the way for critical studies in Jewish history.
It also includes extended digressions by Dyeth as the narrator, speaking to the reader about history, art, sex, politics and civilization.
Like her contemporary Elizabeth David, Jane Grigson's books are known for their witty and sometimes extensive digressions on the history of ingredients and recipes.
Each volume focuses on a different expedition in North American history, with most also including digressions and chronological departures.
The novel is related in broad chronological order by the main protagonist, Herbert Badgery, but with frequent digressions that relate the circumstances and life history of Badgery himself, and of many of the characters he meets.

digressions and known
Written " in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote " ( see title page on right ), the work owes much of its humour to the techniques developed by Cervantes, and its subject-matter to the seemingly loose arrangement of events, digressions and lower-class characters to the genre of writing known as picaresque.

digressions and world
The Naturalis Historia divides neatly into the organic world of plants and animals, and the realm of inorganic matter, although there are frequent digressions in each section.

digressions and by
It proceeds by fits and starts, but mostly by what Sterne calls " progressive digressions " so that we do not reach Tristram's birth before the third volume.
The artistic unity of his work suffered severely from the frequent and lengthy digressions, of which the most important was On the Athenian Demagogues in the 10th book of the Philippica, containing a bitter attack on many of the chief Athenian statesmen, and generally recognized as having been freely used by Plutarch in several of the Lives.
The Ass () is probably a summarized version of a story by Lucian and contains largely the same basic plot elements as The Golden Ass ( or Metamorphoses ) of Apuleius, but with fewer digressions and a different ending.
His narrative is badly arranged and full of unexpected digressions, but he relays much invaluable information not provided by more methodical chroniclers.
Given the evidence of A. C. Elias about the acrimony of Swift's departure from the Temple household, evidence from Swift's Journal to Stella about how uninvolved in the Temple household Swift had been, and the number of repeated observations about himself by the Tale's author, it seems reasonable to propose that the digressions reflect a single type of man, if not a particular character.
Gaillard is painstaking and impartial in his statement of facts, and his style is correct and elegant, but the unity of his narrative is somewhat destroyed by digressions, and by his method of treating war, politics, civil administration, and ecclesiastical affairs under separate heads.
The format, created by John Higgs, encouraged the team of three contestants to co-operate rather than compete against each other, and was designed to encourage the telling of interesting anecdotes and digressions.
" However, " the music of the ' common practice ' offers many exemplars of such altogether unexpected digressions just as a work is drawing to its close, followed by a return, for the final cadence, to a consequently more emphatic confirmation of the structural relations implied in the body of the work.
There are also occasional digressions by the characters on literature and philosophy as most of Rohmer's characters are middle class and university educated.
One reason is that all plot digressions are simply window dressing to the film's focus on the brutally invading North Koreans and the big-scale counterattack by the good guys.
In spite of his numerous digressions and parentheses, says Father Brucker, and a somewhat neglected style, Father Cahier is never wearisome ; a vein of kindly but caustic humor runs through his pages, in which about pungent words and phrases, dictated, however, by candour and the love of truth.
The assumption is also supported by that Photios speaks explicitly of digressions and bays.
From some of the fragments of the work which have been preserved, it has been conjectured by some writers that Phylarchus commenced at an earlier period, perhaps as early as the death of Alexander the Great ; but since digressions on earlier events might easily have been introduced by Phylarchus, we are not warranted in rejecting the Sudas express testimony.

digressions and more
It is a striking fact that Ammianus, though a professional soldier, gives excellent pictures of social and economic problems, and in his attitude to the non-Roman peoples of the empire he is far more broad-minded than writers like Livy and Tacitus ; his digressions on the various countries he had visited are particularly interesting.
* the stories are filled with digressions into philosophy, the complete texts of official documents, and much more, making for very long books ;
Gobel's hesitant, almost shy delivery and penchant for tangled digressions were the chief sources of comedy, more important than the actual content of the stories.
I was much more interested in men, their jobs, their misfortunes and their conflicts than in the digressions of the great German pontiff.
* the stories were filled with digressions into philosophy, the complete texts of official documents, and much more, making for very long books ;
While in many ways even more personal and idiosyncratic than Dead Certainties, roaming through widening circles of digressions, this book was also more traditionally structured and better-defined in its approach.
The exceptions to the straightforward chronology are the periodic digressions in his narrative, where Mommsen inserts separate chapters, each devoted to one or more of a range of particular subjects, for example:
Some universal chronicles bear a more or less encyclopedic character, with many digressions on non-historical subjects, as is the case with the Chronicon of Helinand of Froidmont.

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