One Hundred Years of Solitude

adventure, dismantled their
houses and packed up, along
with their wives and children,
to head toward the land that
no one had promised them.
Before he left, José Arcadio
Buendía buried the spear in
the courtyard and, one after
the other, he cut the throats of
his magnificent fighting
cocks, trusting that in that
way he could give some
measure of peace to
Prudencio Aguilar. All that