One Hundred Years of Solitude

cemetery. It was at that time
that they built a fortress of
reinforced concrete over the
faded tomb of José Arcadio,
so that the corpses smell of
powder would not
contaminate the waters. For
the foreigners who arrived
without love they converted
the street of the loving
matrons from France into a
more extensive village than it
had been, and on one glorious
Wednesday they brought in a