One Hundred Years of Solitude

Foreign to the restlessness of
the town, deaf to Úrsulas
quiet predictions. Fernanda
gave the last tam to the screw
of her preconceived plan. She
wrote a long letter to her son
José Arcadio, who was then
about to take his first orders,
and in it she told him that his
sister Renata had expired in
the peace of the Lord and as a
consequence of the black
vomit. Then she put
Amaranta Úrsula under the