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The scenic route through a sentence, where the point waits patiently at the exit.
means A temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing, usually before circling back.
from From Latin digredi, to step away — di- (apart) plus gradi (to walk), the verbal equivalent of wandering off the path.
Cousin wordShares roots with progress and aggression.
Literary flexSterne's Tristram Shandy is nearly all digression.
Grammar habitParentheses are digressions wearing brackets.