The divagation through Anatolia is considered credible as Ibn Battuta describes numerous personal experiences and there is sufficient time between leaving Mecca in mid-November 1330 and reaching E irdir on the way back from Erzurum at the start of Ramadan ( 8 June ) in 1331.
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Prominent eyes are described as " exophthalmic, " and an otherwise down-to-earth character gets annoyed at a colleague's " divagations . " ( It means verbal wanderings . ) Still, the mystery is solid, and you'll find yourself thinking about the characters whenever you see one of those ersatz beers.
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Maureen McLane published a round-up discussion of this event called Twisting and Turning " : A Divagation Prompted by the Poets Forum Panel of November 8, 2008 . Twisting and Turning begins by referencing the sonnet s turn, which McLane calls only the most conspicuous example of the formal and cognitive turns a poem may enact . But then it leaps out to consider, or rather mention, all the various kinds of turns there could potentially be in a poem.
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Along a winding road that bisects a girls'college, past an iron fence that once stood guard before the summer residence of Henry Clay Frick, my nervous limo driver and I went; we traveled ( if I may, in so self-reflective a piece, quote from my earlier account ) " across some railroad tracks to what I presumed was the wrong side, where, after a few divagations into the driveways of indignant gentry, we eventually came upon the author, looking as elderly and vexed as his neighbors ."
