One Hundred Years of Solitude

was imposed, the same as that
of reciting the rosary before
dinner, and it drew the
attention of the neighbors,
who soon spread the rumor
that the Buendías did not sit
down to the table like other
mortals but had changed the
act of eating into a kind of
high mass. Even Úrsulas
superstitions, with origins
that came more from an
inspiration of the moment
than from tradition, came into