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The critic is a digresser par excellence: His task is to wander away from a text in order to devise a richer route of return.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2020

“It wasna about ony game business, then, that you wanted advice?” said Bindloose, who, though somewhat of a digresser himself, made little allowance for the excursions of others from the subject in hand.

From St. Ronan's Well by Scott, Walter, Sir