One Hundred Years of Solitude

decoration with a personal
representative. Colonel
Gerineldo Márquez, besieged
by pressures of all kinds, left
his bed of a paralytic in order
to persuade his former
companion in arms. When the
latter saw the rocking chair
carried by four men appear
and saw the friend who had
shared his victories and
defeats since youth sitting in
it among some large pillows,
he did not have a single doubt