One Hundred Years of Solitude

child she had drawn him out
of Melquíades room, his head
full of fantastic ideas and
lacking any contact with
reality, and she had given him
a place in the world. Nature
had made him reserved and
withdrawn. with tendencies
toward solitary meditation,
and she had molded an
opposite character in him, one
that was vital, expansive,
open, and she had injected
him with a joy for living and