Sentence No. 124 · 29 July 2026
These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Mary Shelley — Frankenstein (1818) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
Notice the simple subject-verb-object spine: scenes afforded me consolation. The relative pronoun 'that' must introduce a clause modifying a preceding noun, so the fragment beginning 'that I was' attaches to 'consolation' and cannot start the sentence.
How it appears in Sentle
On Sentle this sentence arrives in 6 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. A troubled soul seeks solace in mountain wilderness. 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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