First Sentence

"On the basis of a short review of a work whose author I'd rather not remember, referring to the discovery in a suitcase without owner of two quite distinctive series of poems attributed without proof to Eusebio, interned at the request of his family in the military psychiatric centre in Melilla at the start of the July '36 rebellion, from which he escaped, according to one version, aided and abetted by a soldier from the Rif, or where, according to another, he underwent 'rehabilitation treatment' provided by a few Fascist psychiatrists, we, a Circle of active, passionate readers in a provincial city, decided to write a collective story based on the poet's elusive history, gathered together over the course of three weeks in the benign summer shade of a delightfully cultivated garden."