One Hundred Years of Solitude

provocation of any kind, took
up combat positions upon a
signal from their commander
and opened fire without pity
on the crowd. When calm
was restored, not one of the
false bedouins remained in
town and there were many
dead and wounded lying on
the square: nine clowns, four
Columbines, seventeen
playing-card kings, one devil,
three minstrels, two peers of
France, and three Japanese