Sentence No. 64 · 30 May 2026
It glides over the park after the moving shadows of the clouds, and chases them, and never catches them, all day
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Charles Dickens — Bleak House (1853) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
Notice the strung-together actions: "and chases them, and never catches them." Repeating "and" instead of packing the verbs into one list is called polysyndeton. Keep the phrases in the order they come — each one adds a new action by the same subject.
How it appears in Sentle
On Sentle this sentence arrives in 7 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. Cold sunlight plays across an ancestral estate awaiting its returning masters. 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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