One Hundred Years of Solitude

and had tried to show it to
him with countless examples
drawn from his own
experience. He had believed
him. But the night when the
soldiers looked at him
without seeing him while he
thought about the tension of
the past few months, the
misery of jail, the panic at the
station, and the train loaded
with dead people, José
Arcadio Segundo reached the
conclusion that Colonel