One Hundred Years of Solitude

her own excrement. She
reached twenty without
knowing how to read or
write, unable to use the silver
at the table, wandering naked
through the house because
her nature rejected all manner
of convention. When the
young commander of the
guard declared his love for
her, she rejected him simply
because his frivolity startled
her. See how simple he is, she
told Amaranta. He says that