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### 2. Parenthetical Aside Format
After the introduction, tangent passages are formatted as parenthetical asides:
After the introduction, tangent passages are formatted as **italicized parenthetical asides** — italics inside parentheses to visually distinguish involuntary brain tangents from regular narrative asides:
```
Regular narration here.
(Short, clipped tangent thoughts. Sentence fragments. Rapid-fire observations.
Raw brain output without social niceties or full prose. The noise made visible.)
(*Short, clipped tangent thoughts. Sentence fragments. Rapid-fire observations.
Raw brain output without social niceties or full prose. The noise made visible.*)
Regular narration resumes, sometimes mid-action.
```
The `(*…*)` format works cleanly on Kindle and provides an immediate visual cue that this is "the noise" rather than a standard parenthetical.
## Rules for Parentheticals
### What qualifies: