(2) More anacoluthia at "Word For The Day, Thursday, September 2, 2010 - anacoluthia"
(3) William F. Buckley discussed the anacoluthon in an obituary for William F. Rickenbacker, reprinted in National Review on May 23, 2005. Here's an excerpt:
"A few years ago, responding to a rebuke for his failure to visit New York more often, he wrote me, 'I too wish I could move around a bit more, but I seem to have simplified my life a good deal in recent years. Three or four hours a day at the old piano will nail a fellow down good and hard. But I have dreams, dreams in full color, not to mention aroma, of lunch at Paone's [the reference is to the restaurant around the corner on 34th Street and Third Avenue, heavily patronized by NATIONAL REVIEW], which, by the way, why doesn't somebody burn it down and rebuild it up here in God's country?' The formulation of that last sentence is an inside joke, dating back to the opening sentence of an editorial written by the late Willmoore Kendall for NR. It began, 'Last week at Harriman House, which by the way why doesn't somebody burn it down ...' There was some concern not over the sentiments expressed but over the diction used, until Bill relieved us by declaring that Kendall had used an anacoluthon, defined as
an abrupt change within a sentence to a second construction inconsistent with the first, sometimes used for rhetorical effect; for example, I warned him that if he continues to drink, what will become of him.
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