One Hundred Years of Solitude

he told his wife very calmly.

            Let them    talk,   she said.   We

know that its not true.

            So  the situation   went    on

the same way for another six
months until that tragic
Sunday when José Arcadio
Buendía won a cockfight
from Prudencio Aguilar.
Furious, aroused by the blood
of his bird, the loser backed
away from José Arcadio
Buendía so that everyone in