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	Digression with Petrene Soames
		Petrene Soames defines to digress as "to move away physically, mentally and/or emotionally from a fixed point of life experience and acceptance." By this act of expansion, one can then see and realize oneself more fully, and also see that reality is not fixed.
		A Digression session can answer more fully the question of who and what you are, who are the different people that make up you, what do they look like, what personalities do they favor, what time frames do they exist in, and how and where do they live their lives.
		Digression is a great and powerful medium which you can access and use on your own personal journey of awareness and self-discovery.
	www.timeismine.com /consultations/digression.html (875 words)

	Digression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Classical rhetoric since Corax of Syracuse, especially in Institutio Oratoria of Quintilian, the digression was a regular part of any oration or composition.
		A schizothemia is a digression by means of a long reminescence.
		The digression was also used for non-satiric purposes in fiction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Digression (474 words)

	Digression or Hightlight? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		All living things are broken, the rocks and the heavens resound, the earth turns upside down; and this, they say, was the origin of earthquakes.
		The digressions from the hero's career do retard the movement of the text.
		In African epic, digressions into clearly extraneous matters are often responses to the performance situation and the impact of the spectator on the performance (Okpewho, Epic, 193-94).
	xroads.virginia.edu /~public/IBONIA/resources/digression.html (556 words)

	Chronicle Careers: 12/5/2002: A Digression on Digression (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But it is all digression and diversion nevertheless, and that part of me that is a slave to my syllabus sees it as an obstacle to my primary goal.
		Some even suggested that Yates's husband was partially responsible for the crime, inasmuch as he continued to encourage the growth of their family in spite of his wife's mental instability.
		Not only does digression give students a chance to refocus on the topic at hand, but a well-turned anecdote or a pointed tangent adds variety to the lecture while simultaneously stimulating student interest and piquing student curiosity.
	chronicle.com /jobs/2002/12/2002120501c.htm (1544 words)

	// digression.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.
		The digressions I can not excuse otherwise, than by the confidence that no man will read them.
		Then my digression is so vile, so base, That it will live engraven in my face.
	www.digression.net (93 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for digression
		At a staff meeting at Parker LePla, spirited discussion is not a digression.
		The figure of Melusine in Fontane's texts: images, digressions, and lacunae.
		Danish digressions; An off-season trip to Denmark's island of Funen leads our correspondent on a merry round-about through medieval castles, viking burials and the fairy tale world of Hans Christian Andersen.(TRAVEL)
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=digression (660 words)

	digression.htm
		He didn't stick to the point too much, and they were always yelling Îdigressionâ at him.
		They kept yelling Digression at him the whole time he was making it, and this teacher, Mr.
		Vinson, gave him an F on it because he hadnât told what kind of animals and vegetables and stuff grew on the farm and all.
	www.usm.maine.edu /~amoroso/edu621/digression.htm (2541 words)

	Types Of The Last Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Digression 3: The Earth - Land - Eretzl
		Digression 6: A Possible Chronology Of The Tribulation
		Digression 7: The Palestinian Movement In Bible Prophecy
	www.aletheiacollege.net /ld/ldindex.htm (289 words)

	Aaron Brown's Digression of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Previously, I've had a couple of previous digressions about GTE (October 25, 1997 and February 25, 1997).
		Vickie: i read your digression about attempted murder and dui's etc.; Vickie: and i do think that people who try to kill someone but don't Vickie: succeed should be charged with murder.
		About your Nov 21 digression, When I first came to Berkeley, I was amazed that there were ASUC [Associateed Students of the University of California] candidates who were interested in protecting "Greeks and Greek issues." I soon realized that they were talking about Frats and not Greeks from Greece.
	www.csua.berkeley.edu /~asb/digress/digress.html (10321 words)

	purevolume™ \| Digression Assassins
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		All songs, lyrics and pictures © Digression Assassins.
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	www.purevolume.com /digressionassassins (156 words)

	Noise in Snow Crash -- Another take on Digression (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Digression in the novel Snow Crash is not meandering, or meaningless.
		Using the consistent sidetracked tirade has two stong points in Snow Crash: the characterization that takes place within a digression is entertaining and advances what I would label is a plot by postmodern writers to implement theory into the world of literature.
		Instead, as readers of those texts, we must deal with the occational digression in a thoughtful way that suspends the uncritical, exposes the construction of writing and its nature.
	www.cyberartsweb.org /cpace/scifi/ns/crews.html (533 words)

	Exposition of Job
		Digression 10: The Size Of The Early Church
		Digression 11: New Testament Quotations From The Septuagint
		Job must be one of the most enigmatic books for Bible students; what we seem to lack is a framework around which to develop our interpretation of it.
	www.carelinks.net /books/dh/james/james_d12.html (6757 words)

	digression - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Books: Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;…, Fiction: In this plain story of…
		Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading; take them out of this book for instance, you might as well...
		Weapons of the Future on the Discovery Channel
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=digression (104 words)

	Digression
		If they do, then just pick up where you left off (or start a new digression) next time you start talking.
		Another variant is to encourage them to join in.
		Digression fills up the time that the other person may have for selling, which means you can use the time left at the end to squeeze a better deal out from them.
	changingminds.org /techniques/resisting/digression.htm (186 words)

	A Digression on Form and Discontent
		At any rate, aside from presenting the opening philosophical insight, the other reason for bothering with this digression is a desire to let you know that I know that "your smileage may vary", as I like to paraphrase the techie cliche'.
		In other words, I've done all I could bring myself to do to smooth things out, but your quality of viewing experience will depend a great deal on which browser you're using.
		And as perhaps could and should go without saying, if you have a fairly "new" browser, presentation sorts of things should work out all right.
	www.lafn.org /~ba213/tt/digression.html (897 words)

	RESTORATION MOVEMENT: The Poisoned Wells of Digression
		Instead, they would drive us back into the same old tired digressions and innovations which have divided and torn the Restoration churches for 150 years.
		When our liberal brethren join with the digressives (Independent Christian Churches and Disciples) in the "Restoration Forums," and share their pulpits, they endorse with the same time-frayed rhetoric every form of scriptural digression in the whole course of the Restoration Movement.
		The American Christian Missionary Society was organized Oct. 23-28, 1849, in Cincinnati, Ohio, with Alexander Campbell elected the first president.
	www.bible-infonet.org /ff/articles/church/110_12_14.htm (1586 words)

	daveread.com - Underwater Photography: Shutter Speeds, Apertures, and Strobes
		A note about the digressions: The digressions are intended as "extra" material that is not really important to understand.
		They're here in case you're interested and are willing to slog through some technical talk on the way to grasping an esoteric concept.
		Shutter speeds play a sort of strange role when you are using a strobe.
	www.daveread.com /uw-photo/exposure101/digression2.html (1659 words)

	Synonyms of digression — Infoplease.com
		digression, aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis, message, content, subject matter, substance
		diversion, deviation, digression, deflection, deflexion, divagation, turn, turning
		usage: a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal"
	www.infoplease.com /thesaurus/digression (79 words)

	furious and sane: Sociocultural Digression Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Today I let my gas go to the empty light as usual and pull into the nearest station (which is not a Super America since I boycott them ever since they sued my beautiful Burnsville over underage cigarette sale fines and lost miserably and bitterly) and fill up at $28.00.
		There is no digression here other than the fact that we need these lifestyle changes to signify a need in revolution in all aspects of our society.
		I'm fascinated by Sons of Norway as I was last year when I discovered.
	blog.lib.umn.edu /jame0182/urbanboy/cat_sociocultural_digression.html (959 words)

	A Pilgrim’s Digression » Lunchtime digressions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
		A Pilgrim’s Digression is proudly powered by WordPress 2.0.
		Originally developed by Hadley Wickham and modified by Tom Raftery.
	sodsbrood.com /pilgrim/index.php/2004/11/03/lunchtime_digressions (541 words)

	Definition of digression - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		1 : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work
		Learn more about "digression" and related topics at Britannica.com
		Get the Top 10 Search Results for "digression"
	www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=digression (35 words)

	Re: Digression Alert (Re: What subway car(s) do you despise.)
		Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Nov 9 04:19:47 2006, in response to Digression Alert (Re: What subway car(s) do you despise.), posted by Nilet on Thu Nov 9 03:10:12 2006.
		As a former motorman, sure would have liked to pull handle on them and check them out.
		I've heard from older-timers that they were dogs, but only way to tell for sure is to run 'em and see how they run and stop.
	www.subchat.com /read.asp?Id=335871 (236 words)

	A Digression: Sad but True!
		Before I continue with my discussion of Esperanto literature I want to insert here a rather lengthy digression and I hope you will forgive me for it.
		The other day, in a book titled You English Words, by John Moore (Collins: 1961), I came across some comments which the author made about Esperanto.
		For a complete listing of article comments, questions, and other discussions related to David Poulson's Esperanto topic, please visit the Discussions page.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/esperanto/11200 (646 words)

	Adventures in C#: Digression -- WordCount
		I need to get estimates of word counts for the chapters to have a sense of progress.
		Here's a digression to get the word counts.
		Write a program that calculates and prints the word count for all the acs*.htm files in the XP Magazine directory.
	www.xprogramming.com /xpmag/acsWordCount.htm (4016 words)

	Digression of the Family of Courtenay
		From The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon
		The purple of three emperors, who have reigned at Constantinople, will authorize or excuse a digression on the origin and singular fortunes of the house of Courtenay, (70) in the three principal branches: I. Of Edessa; II.
		Of England; of which the last only has survived the revolutions of eight hundred years.
	home.rochester.rr.com /thatchertree/decline.htm (2948 words)

	Authorial Digression in Snow Crash
		However, reading the novel a second time, I began to realize just how little of Stephenson's writing moved the plot.
		Instead, the numerous digressions performed two essential services: they sharpened the satire and they gave Stephenson street cred.
		There's absolutely no point in introducing a freakish Japanese rapper who performs and promptly disappears from the novel unless your goal is to poke fun at the warped reflections of American pop culture produced by the Japanese.
	www.cyberartsweb.org /cpace/scifi/ns/cook.html (429 words)

	Aaron Brown's Digression of the Day, Spring '96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Aaron Brown's Digression of the Day, Spring '96
		You know how when you're driving on the highway, but not in the middle of a big city, and there is a sign that says "Downtown, exit here" or something.
		[Return to Aaron Brown's Digression of the Day]
	www.csua.berkeley.edu /~asb/digress/downtown.html (92 words)

	A slight digression
		Home » Music » Bagpiping » Articles » A slight digression
		Last time saw us into the first two lines of "Scot's Wha Hae."
		I'll resume a discussion of the rest of "Scot's Wha Hae" next time.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/piping_retired/24137 (280 words)

	A Digression
		For those new to programming, here's a short digression, adapted from chapter 8 of Edsger Dijkstra's book,
		Let's say we need to set a variable,
		We should add this information on successful termination as comments in our loop.
	homepage.mac.com /s_lott/books/python/htmlchunks/ch05s10.html (676 words)

	Digression Assassins
		He has put on a real effort and made a tremendous job, respect man! So stay tuned, next week we will put up this new recording, u wont be dissapointed!
		We welcome our second guitarist Andreas into Digression Assassins!
		The guy have some really DA methods for the band so it´s an improve!Next recording at the end of this month!Stay tuned!!We put it up as fast as we have it mixed!!
	www.digressionassassins.net (277 words)

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