It's haul-out day, later in the season than is good for the boat or me,

Can I have some money for an ice cream, Mum?

But for many less-well-off writers, such fees have moved out of range. It is difficult to know what is lost through this rapid casinoization of the literary marketplace, but I suspect a substantial degree of diversity of voice and perspective has gone missing.

Therefore I take it to be rather declarative, or ampliative, or both.