Sentence No. 70 · 5 June 2026
He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad — Heart of Darkness (1899) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
The relative clause "which is also detestable" is a non-restrictive modifier — it adds a second quality without defining "incomprehensible." Whenever you see a "which" phrase, it attaches directly to the noun phrase immediately before it, never opening the sentence.
How it appears in Sentle
On Sentle this sentence arrives in 6 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. The narrator imagines a young Roman sent out to the wilds of ancient Britain — a swampy, savage posting at the edge of the known world — and what the experience would do to him. 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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