Sentence No. 141 · 15 August 2026
The feeling of declining day makes me downcast, sentimental; autumn is here, and has already begun to hush everything into sleep and torpor.
Knut Hamsun, Hunger
Knut Hamsun — Hunger (1890) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
The semicolon here pivots between two independent statements: an inward mood on the left, an outward season on the right. When you see a semicolon, expect a full clause on each side — neither half can be a mere fragment.
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 restless mind wanders through an autumnal park at day's end. 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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