Since I haven't gotten a lot of responses to the question of ellipses use here (so far), I pos[t]ed it on Facebook and received this eloquent reply from poet Alfred Corn defending expressive usage:
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It slows down pronunciation of the last word and signals the onset of a mood of reverie, negative capability, if you will. Leaving the sentence and the thought behind it open to the inflow of various associative thoughts.
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