Sentence No. 114 · 19 July 2026
I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about; all well dressed, all looking a little hungry, and all talking in low, earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald — The Great Gatsby (1925) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
Notice the triple parallel on "all" — "all well dressed," "all looking a little hungry," "and all talking in low, earnest voices." The semicolon sets up that list of three matched phrases, so any fragment starting with "all" belongs in that middle stretch, with "and" marking the final item.
How it appears in Sentle
On Sentle this sentence arrives in 7 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. A newcomer drifts through a glittering party, scanning unfamiliar faces. Putting it back in the author’s order is the puzzle — and the order is rarely arbitrary, which is what the note above is about.
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