One Hundred Years of Solitude

a wig for her from the hair of
the saints. She would
manufacture a beautiful
corpse, with the linen shroud
and a plush-lined coffin with
purple trim. and she would
put it at the disposition of the
worms with splendid funeral
ceremonies. She worked out
the plan with such hatred that
it made her tremble to think
about the scheme, which she
would have carried out in
exactly the same way if it had