One Hundred Years of Solitude

two trunks with his clothing
to the house of his concubine.
She sent them in broad
daylight and with instructions
that they be carried through
the middle of the street so
that everyone could see them,
thinking that her straying
husband would be unable to
bear the shame and would
return to the fold with his
head hung low. But that
heroic gesture was just one
more proof of how poorly