One Hundred Years of Solitude

room. The locked room,
about which the spiritual life
of the house revolved in
former times, was known
from that time on as the
chamberpot room. For
Colonel Aureliano Buendía it
was the most appropriate
name, because while the rest
of the family was still amazed
by the fact that Melquíades
room was immune to dust and
destruction, he saw it turned
into a dunghill. In any case, it