One Hundred Years of Solitude

someone who did not suffer
as well from shamefulness,
and if it had not been for the
loss of the letters, the rain
would not have bothered
Fernanda, because, after all,
her whole life had been spent
as if it had been raining. She
did not change her schedule
or modify her ritual. When
the table was still raised up
on bricks and the chairs put
on planks so that those at the
table would not get their feet