One Hundred Years of Solitude

several days and in the
poolroom at the Hotel Jacob
they had to arrange twenty-
four-hour shifts. That was
where José Arcadio Segundo
was on the day it was
announced that the army had
been assigned to reestablish
public order. Although he
was not a man given to
omens, the news was like an
announcement of death that
he had been waiting for ever
since that distant morning