One Hundred Years of Solitude

gaudy parasols, and wore on
their shoulders fine silk
kerchiefs, with colored
creams on their faces and
natural flowers in their hair
and golden serpents on their
arms and diamonds in their
teeth. The log raft was the
only vessel that José Arcadio
Segundo was able to bring to
Macondo, and only once, but
he never recognized the
failure of his enterprise, but
proclaimed his deed as a