One Hundred Years of Solitude

past. But Amaranta could not
bear the memories that that
man, whose baldness had
plunged him into the abyss of
premature old age, aroused in
her, and she would torment
him with snide remarks until
he did not come back except
on special occasions and he
finally disappeared,
extinguished by paralysis.
Taciturn, silent, insensible to
the new breath of vitality that
was shaking the house,