An essay on what we half suspected for Luis Britto García to read belatedly.*

1. Complete by circling

That afternoon At dusk Before sunrise the mottled muted bereft bewildered cousin girl child invented ingested regressed recurred awoke eloped sobbed subjected bespoke beguiled her blanket tree house brother sock bath troubles coins toes kingdom breakfast daddy gumboots pony coffin after while before sobbing smacking sucking stealing stifling asphyxiating acclimatising ambushing unbalancing emboldening drowning holding howling wallowing waiting yawning churning touring circling for onto into on in over under a kitten a pond an orange a doll a cloud a book a swamp a swing an egg a belly a boy a sea a crown bravely solemnly peacefully wickedly slowly gradually joyfully thoughtfully well. Finally Then At last Afterwards the gleeful pleasant spoilt scarred dirty cousin girl child sailed snuck slid drifted hopped wafted to bed and was quiet.