Staying on course

Aug 19, 2022

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In his Parallel Lives, the Greek philosopher and historian Plutarch (c. AD 46–c. AD 120) kept apologising for taking the reader off-road, into side stories and arguments which, he thought, didn’t bear directly on the main narrative. Avoiding digressions was, for the story-teller in him, the ultimate challenge. And the more he apologised, the deeper he p…

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