One Hundred Years of Solitude

that made the customers laugh and Arcadio had him shot for disrespect for the authorities ...

was of no use. Arcadio continued tightening the tourniquet with unnecessary rigor until he became the crue ...

daughters, and dragged out Don Apolinar Moscote. When Úrsula burst into the courtyard of headquarter ...

Before Arcadio had time to read she let go with the first blow of the lash. I dare you to, mu ...

was unconscious, tied to the post where previously they had had the scarecrow that had been cut ...

headquarters she released the prisoners from the stocks. From that time on she was the one ...

husband, who had been forgotten under the chestnut tree. Look what weve come to, she would te ...

beginning of his madness he would announce his daily needs with urgent Latin phrases. In fleeting cl ...

would bathe him bit by bit as he sat on his stool while she gave him news of the family. Aureliano went t ...

however, that her husband would grow sad with the bad news. Then she decided to lie to him. Rou ...

own lies. Arcadio is a serious man now, she said, and very brave, and a fine-looking young man with his u ...

exposed to the sun and the rain, as if the thongs were unnecessary, for a dominion superior ...

down on us? she told him. Amaranta and the pianola Italian are going to get married. Amarant ...

buttonhole, and he would translate Petrarchs sonnets for Amaranta. They would sit on the porch, suffocated b ...

fiancé, which he had to push aside materially with his pale and ringless fingers in order to leave the hou ...

say, going through the cards. A person can put out his hand and the birds will come to feed. Sometimes, ...

with ancient cities of whose past grandeur only the cats among the rubble remained. After cro ...

tower of Florence that told time with a concert of carillons, and music boxes from Sorrento ...

enough time to take care of the music school. Thanks to him the Street of the Turks, with its ...

and prepared a Gregorian repertory that added a note of splendor to Father Nicanors quiet rite. No ...