One Hundred Years of Solitude

rancor. Nevertheless, when
her husband asked if it was
not possible to have a soft-
boiled egg, she did not
answer simply that they had
run out of eggs the week
before, but she worked up a
violent diatribe against men
who spent their time
contemplating their navels
and then had the gall to ask
for larks livers at the table.
Aureliano Segundo took the
children to look at the