One Hundred Years of Solitude

with the same eyes as Colonel
Aureliano Buendía.

            Its obvious that    no  one has

been in that room for at least
a hundred years. the officer
said to the soldiers. There
must even be snakes in there.

            When    the door    closed, José

Arcadio Segundo was sure
that the war was over. Years
before Colonel Aureliano
Buendía had spoken to him
about the fascination of war