One Hundred Years of Solitude

burst of temerity, stubbornly
kept on with the project. Until
then he had shown no sign of
imagination. Except for his
precarious adventure with
Petra Cotes, he had never
known a woman. Úrsula had
considered him the quietest
example the family had ever
produced in all its history,
incapable of standing out
even as a handler of fighting
cocks, when Colonel
Aureliano Buendía told him