The work is a Platonic dialogue between Toxophilus and Philologus, and nowadays its chief interest lies in its incidental remarks.
There are many incidental remarks of the chroniclers which serve to show that the tone of the house was thoroughly religious, and that the canons were faithful in keeping their rule.
Yet, as the cards were dealt and played, by incidental remarks here and there, Ish put together a great deal of the situation.
This incidental remark would alone prove him to have been a man of mark among the English Carmelites, even without the next sentence, in which we are told that while Beckley was engaged in the king's business Thomas Walden used to protect his interests at Cambridge against the complaints of his fellow-doctors there.
There were no more incidental remarks over the speaker that day, but it was a constant source of odd, vulgar dialogues between much the same personnel during the next week.
Its aim is to do no more, and no less, than to tell the story of a life in its most extended detail, by making skillful use of both the mass of previous writing about Pound and, especially, Pound's own voice in his books, letters, broadcasts and incidental remarks.
That incidental remark proved the label for the entire event.
The story was received with keen interest and lively approval, whereupon Rumata made the incidental remark that he had heard this story from Don Sera.
Very well, I will make an incidental remark: certain people are not directly affected by certain events, when they are the focus of those actions.
This incidental remark provides sound historial proof that pūjā was built on analogy with atithi, the ancient Vedic tradition of welcoming guests (see Origins, above).