Digresses

But this writer digresses.

Q. The film digresses to talk about Irish politics and the Troubles, but also about shifting positions on issues like gay marriage in a Catholic country.

Ishmael digresses on pictures of whales, brit (microscopic sea creatures on which whales feed), squid and — after four boats lowered in vain because Daggoo mistook a giant squid for the white whale — whale-lines.