One Hundred Years of Solitude

than they are doing, and with
more scientific resources than
a miserable bedspread. In
spite of his feigned interest,
José Arcadio must understood
the powers of the
philosophers egg, which to
him looked like a poorly
blown bottle. He did not
succeed in escaping from his
worries. He lost his appetite
and he could not sleep. He
fell into an ill humor, the
same as his fathers over the