One Hundred Years of Solitude

the people and he realized
that something had changed
in the makeup of the men
since the days when they
would leave their wives and
children and toss a shotgun
on their shoulders to go off to
war. The local authorities,
after the armistice of
Neerlandia, were mayors
without initiative, decorative
judges picked from among
the peaceful and tired
Conservatives of Macondo.