One Hundred Years of Solitude

up in the workshop to talk to
the colonel. In spite of the
fact that she could not see
him, Úrsula analyzed the
clicking of his foremans
boots and was surprised at the
unbridgeable distance that
separated him from the
family, even from the twin
brother with whom he had
played ingenious games of
confusion in childhood and
with whom he no longer had
any traits in common. He was