even though later it might include Reno, or the Virgin Islands or wherever they go
nowadays for their divorces. A dollar love had good intentions, a clear conscience,
and to Hell with everybody. But my love had no intentions [20].
The selected text fragment is a converged author`s digression. It is woven in the
main text of the story conjunctionless; the opposite relation is expressed with the
implicitly at the semantic level. Here the author is thinking about the mutual
relationship of the material (a dollar love) and spiritual (Mother's Day) in general,
without specifying the specific subject of the action. The specification is expressed in
the text of the main story.
In the following fragment from the novel by G. Greene “The Quiet American”,
the selected author`s digression is included in the text of the main narrative with the
punctuation means:
There was nowhere to sit except in the Papal chair, round which a plaster cobra
coiled, the marble floor glittered like water and there was no glass in the windows –
we make a cage for air with holes, and man makes a cage for his religion in much the
same way – with doubts left open to the weather and creeds opening on innumerable
interpretations [20].
The structural feature of this author`s digression is that the author`s digression is
expressed with the part of the complex sentence, and included in this sentence without
a conjunction. The author's intention in such author`s digression is to introduce the
reader into the atmosphere, guide him to the certain conclusions.
In the following example, the author`s digression from the novel by Maugham
“The Moon and Sixpence” is included in a sentence without a conjunction, which
increases its independence, autonomy:
If I am rhetorical it is because Stroeve was rhetorical. (Do we not know that man
in moments of emotion expresses himself naturally in the terms of a novelette?) …He
was like the mystic seeking to describe the ineffable. But one fact he made clear to me:
people talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one
carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a
hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity [18].
This author`s digression is included into the sentence with a conjunctionless
relation, it is a semantic unit integrated in the narrative. In this example, the addresser-
author gives its own assessment of the events.
Among the lexico-grammatical means of the inclusion of the author`s digression
in the text we selected pronouns: then, here, this, that, and such, his, her, etc. Thus, for
example:
I was not fifteen when my father found that I had a lover”, she said. “He was third
mate on the Tropic Bird. A good-looking boy”. She sighed a little. They say a woman
always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always
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