Sentence No. 9 · 5 April 2026
Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Mary Shelley — Frankenstein (1818) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
The relative clause "from which I alone am irrevocably excluded" is anchored by "which" referring back to "bliss." Whenever you see a "from which" or "in which" phrase, it always follows — never precedes — the noun it modifies.
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 creature confronts his creator, demanding to know why he was made and then abandoned to suffer alone. 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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