More generally, in grammar, an "'asyndetic coordination "'is a type of coordination in which no coordinating conjunction is present between the conjuncts.
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For example, the line " fold after slimy fold knotting about him, "'twisting, crushing, killing him "', " is, in the highlighted text, an asyndetic tricolon.
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Some of the synonyms given above ( " loosening of association ", " asyndetic thinking " ) are used by some authors to refer just to a " loss of goal " : discourse that sets off on a particular idea, wanders off and never returns to it.