One Hundred Years of Solitude

progress but purveyors of
amusement. Even when they
brought the ice they did not
advertise it for its usefulness
in the life of man but as a
simple circus curiosity. This
time, along with many other
artifices, they brought a
flying carpet. But they did not
offer it as a fundamental
contribution to the
development of transport,
rather as an object of
recreation. The people at once