Matt said: > In any case, there doesn't seem to be much of a problem on this list > with the issue. People who are genuinely upset by digressions end up > either leaving or adjusting. The core of active members here is really > what dictates the sort of behavior that is appropriate I am fatally enamored of digressions. I shall always cast my one vote in favor of tolerating them until they kill me off. (I don't think some things I've spoken out against recently, such as personal attacks, fall in that category of "digressions," I hasten to add.) How can we object to digressions in a forum devoted to talking about the work of a writer who not only offers us a bouquet of parentheses, but who periodically stops to point out handy places where readers who don't like his digressions can efficiently exit the narrative? Or of the man who writes so fondly of digressions in Catcher? May your tangents treat you well, but do come back now and then! --tim