Sentence No. 99 · 4 July 2026
Even his depression had passed, there was not a trace now of the energy with which he had set out “to make an end of it all.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky — Crime and Punishment (1866) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
Notice the comma splice joining two independent clauses: the first ends at 'had passed,' and the second begins fresh with 'there was.' Tracking that pivot tells you which fragments belong before the comma and which expand the second half.
How it appears in Sentle
On Sentle this sentence arrives in 7 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. A man wanders the city, numb, after abandoning a desperate impulse. 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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