the time is coming to serve and to encourage their errant divagation over all the surfaces

I repeat it exclusive of any pertinence; it comes out of the language, it divagates—where?

At the time—one interpretation might divagate—humanity had been nomadic, tribal, hunter-gatherers following the seasonal animal migrations.

Thus all of the heteronym forger’s mysticism, nationalism, and other ardent divagations came back to none other than himself

Modernism was a brief divagation into difficulty; but Richard was still out there, in difficulty.