What is the word for digressing from a topic to talk passionately about something?

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Basically when someone jumps to a kind of related topic and talks about it very passionately for a while. What is the word for that?
As in, "I hate to go on a -------- but I want to tell the group about how the themes in this book relate to modern topics."
Not tangent or digress.

user412320 · Answer

Orate or oration

I don't want to orate, but a man of your position has so much to lose; you can't afford to do it.

user 66974 · Answer

You are making an aside:

a remark or story in a speech or text that is not part of the main subject.

(Cambridge Dictionary)
the content of the aside would be a panegyric

a eulogistic oration or writing

(M-W)

GEdgar · Answer

I hate to go on a tangent, but...

tangent  NOUN
2 A completely different line of thought or action.
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What is the word for digressing from a topic to talk passionately about something?

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