One Hundred Years of Solitude

enough time for the children,
to see from the whites of their
eyes that they needed a dose
of castor oil. Now, however,
when she had nothing to do
and would go about with José
Arcadio riding on her hip
from dawn to dusk, this bad
kind of time compelled her to
leave things half done. The
truth was that Úrsula resisted
growing old even when she
had already lost count of her
age and she was a bother on