Sentence No. 93 · 28 June 2026
We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad — Heart of Darkness (1899) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
The phrase "on a prehistoric earth" is immediately restated as "on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet" — a repetition-with-expansion called apposition. The echoing phrase always follows the phrase it expands, never leads it.
How it appears in Sentle
On Sentle this sentence arrives in 6 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. A river journey through primeval wilderness stirs uneasy reflection. 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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