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

But he wasn't about to stray. He was straight arrow. Divagation, errancy - to Guy this spelt humiliation. It would be disastrous, and inexpiable.

There was no lack of sincerity in these divagations.

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

Add to this the novel’s several set-piece historical divagations, a motley anthology of attempts to reach alternate dimensions or point outside the confines of ordinary human understanding