A world in a sentence + Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina

And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been in darkness, sputtered, grew dim, and went out forever.

Novelist Leo Tolstoy concludes Section Seven of Anna Karenina with the sentence about reading that you see above. But in reading any sentence,  a reader enters a universe, somewhat originating in the text and somewhat coming from elsewhere.  Where does Tolstoy’s sentence lead you?

You can see here where the sentence above leads some Anna Karenina reading group members.

If the sentence takes you somewhere, too, send back a message by contributing a comment.