Here is what us scholars call an excursus. If you are an honest man the following page or two can be of no possible interest to you.
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Excursus
//ɛkˈskɝsəs//
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In his excursus on the Jewish people at the opening of the fifth book of his Histories [...], Tacitus was at a loss to uncover any deep cause for the war that broke out in 66.
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The authors devote a fascinating excursus to the Western imagination’s preoccupation with serpents—from Eden to esoterica—and how this primed the ground for Kuṇḍalinī’s reception.
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