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May 20, 2012

digress v.i.: divagate

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The story divagates, exfoliates, crumbles and reconstitutes itself. It can move simultaneously in two or three different time frames, so that we get someone recounting a story in which someone recounts another story. (Richard Eder, “An Act of Omission,” Newsday, 2/12/1995.)

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