One Hundred Years of Solitude

they were throwing him from
the top of a tower into a
bottomless pit and in a last
flash of consciousness he
realized that at the end of that
endless fall death was waiting
for him.

            Take    me  to  Fernanda,   he

managed to say.

            His friends left    him at  the

house thinking that they had
helped him fulfill his promise
to his wife not to die in his