One Hundred Years of Solitude

just shoot, she murmured.
José Arcadio Segundo did not
have time to speak because at
that instant he recognized the
hoarse voice of Colonel
Gavilán echoing the words of
the woman with a shout.
Intoxicated by the tension, by
the miraculous depth of the
silence, and furthermore
convinced that nothing could
move that crowd held tight in
a fascination with death, José
Arcadio Segundo raised