It digresses against itself, doubles back, thinks, laughs, pauses, lurches, and eventually gracefully dances. Throughout the narrative Amis digresses into depicting different vistas of interstellar space. Thus, communism is abandoned and society digresses back into feudal autocracy. Occasionally Abarbanel digresses from the subject under discussion, particularly in his commentary on the Pentateuch. Increasingly towards the end, the old man repeats himself, and digresses. He prevaricates and digresses, anything to throw her off track.