Discursiveness Quotes

... when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are. Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least. (Mark Twain)
In mysticism, everything is thrown at us directly, without discursiveness and ratiocination, as if it were a matter of course, and we are challenged to follow an unrestrainable will to love, arising out of a tremendously agitated, indiscriminate feeling. ... Mystics will-rather than know-their thoughts. ... Mysticism witnesses nothing but love; mysticism is nothing but love. ... Art shows how it loves, philosophy what it loves; mysticism knows only that it loves. View quote
Constantin Brunner
His examiner...said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart." View quote
Donald Barthelme