One Hundred Years of Solitude

during his previous life, and
the only fear that remained
was that they would bury him
alive. He told Santa Sofía de
la Piedad about it when she
brought him his daily meals
and she promised to struggle
to stay alive even beyond her
natural forces in order to
make sure that they would
bury him dead. Free from all
fear, José Arcadio Segundo
dedicated himself then to
peruse the manuscripts of