One Hundred Years of Solitude

was more and more like the
colonial mansion of her
parents. Fernanda would
wander alone among the three
living ghosts and the dead
ghost of José Arcadio
Buendía, who at times would
come to sit down with an
inquisitive attention in the
half-light of the parlor while
she was playing the
clavichord. Colonel
Aureliano Buendía was a
shadow. Since the last time