Sentence No. 133 · 7 August 2026
I walk farther down the wharf, find a packing-case and sit upon it, fold my hands, and am conscious that my head is growing more and more confused.
Knut Hamsun, Hunger
Knut Hamsun — Hunger (1890) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
Notice the chain of first-person verbs separated by commas — walk, find, sit, fold, am — each advancing the action. The final clause opens with 'that,' which always introduces what a verb like 'conscious' governs, so it can never begin the sentence.
How it appears in Sentle
On Sentle this sentence arrives in 8 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. A starving wanderer navigates the city, driven by delirious impulses. 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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