34. The Interrupted Sentence - The Aside

My sentence:

In an attempt to convince myself of my self sufficiency I struggled to erect the tripod (all things mechanical are evil, you know) and ended up feeling even more insecure and a lot more cranky.

Other examples:

"[...]; when your first name becomes 'nigger,' your middle name becomes 'boy' (however old you are) and your last name becomes 'John,' and your wife and mother are never given the respected title 'Mrs.'; [...]"

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

This section comes from a long sentence built on anaphora and parallelism, a series of main clauses that begin with "when you" or "when your."