Sentence No. 153 · 27 August 2026
It was necessary to give the reader this information, without which he would be at the same loss with me to understand the proceedings of these people, as they conducted me up the stairs to the top of the island, and from thence to the royal palace.
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift — Gulliver's Travels (1726) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
Notice how 'without which' opens a relative clause that must follow the noun 'information' it modifies. Tracking such connectors — 'without which', 'as', 'and from thence' — lets you thread the fragments in the only order the grammar permits.
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 traveller observes the peculiar attendants required by an abstracted people. 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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