One Hundred Years of Solitude

attempt by the workers the
lawyers publicly exhibited
Mr. Browns death certificate,
attested to by consuls and
foreign ministers which bore
witness that on June ninth last
he had been run over by a fire
engine in Chicago. Tired of
that hermeneutical delirium,
the workers turned away from
the authorities in Macondo
and brought their complaints
up to the higher courts. It was
there that the sleight-of-hand