One Hundred Years of Solitude

was receiving letters for the
dead, Father Antonio Isabel
arrived at five oclock for the
last rites and he had to wait
for more than fifteen minutes
for the recipient to come out
of her bath. When he saw her
appear in a madapollam
nightshirt and with her hair
loose over her shoulders, the
decrepit parish priest thought
that it was a trick and sent the
altar boy away. He thought
however, that he would take