One Hundred Years of Solitude

Aureliano Segundo helped
her with a lever, and the
enormous swollen body gave
a turn like a bell and was
dragged away by the torrent
of liquid mud. Since the rain
began, all that Petra Cotes
had done was to clear her
courtyard of dead animals.
During the first weeks she
sent messages to Aureliano
Segundo for him to take
urgent measures and he had
answered that there was no