Re: digression sessions

Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Sat, 29 Aug 1998 23:12:31 -0500

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