It was in that moment's flight between the picture and her canvas that the demons set on her who often brought her to the verge of tears and made this passage from conception to work as dreadful as any down a dark passage for a child.

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf — To the Lighthouse (1927) · Read it at Project Gutenberg

What holds this sentence together

How it appears in Sentle

On Sentle this sentence arrives in 6 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. Mrs Ramsay thinks about what it is to read — how the words take you out of yourself and return you changed. 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.