Hejinian 3: "The digressive mode is an inevitable reflection of an attraction to the local, the at hand, an attunement to the specific, the concrete, the continguent. What follows is a pursuit of associations accompanied by a heightened awareness of the contextual. Digression, in this sense, is not errancy but an exercise of improvisation and exploration, motivated by restless curiosity, a surfeit of enthusiasm, and a quest for radical thought."