One Hundred Years of Solitude

yard so that they could enjoy,
as he explained it, the dignity
that their status warranted and
so that they would not suffer
from the heat and the
mosquitoes and the countless
discomforts and privations of
the town. The old policemen
were replaced by hired
assassins with machetes. Shut
up in his workshop, Colonel
Aureliano Buendía thought
about those changes and for
the first time in his quiet