One Hundred Years of Solitude

he could have done in other
times with that rain which
had already lasted a year. He
had been one of the first to
bring zinc sheets to Macondo,
much earlier than their
popularization by the banana
company, simply to roof
Petra Cotess bedroom with
them and to take pleasure in
the feeling of deep intimacy
that the sprinkling of the rain
produced at that time. But
even those wild memories of