One Hundred Years of Solitude

so much that one day when
he awoke in a merry mood,
Aureliano Segundo appeared
with a chest full of money, a
can of paste, and a brush, and
singing at the top of his lungs
the old songs of Francisco the
Man, he papered the house
inside and out and from top to
bottom, with one-peso
banknotes. The old mansion,
painted white since the time
they had brought the pianola,
took on the strange look of a