One Hundred Years of Solitude

toolbox that the gypsies must
have left behind in José
Arcadio Buendías days, and
no one knew whether because
of the involuntary exercise,
the winter tedium or the
imposed abstinence, but his
belly was deflating little by
little like a wineskin and his
face of a beatific tortoise was
becoming less bloodshot and
his double chin less
prominent until he became
less pachydermic all over and