One Hundred Years of Solitude

digging crew to make the
ditches three feet deeper.
Overcome by an exploratory
delirium comparable only to
that of his great-grandfather
when he was searching for
the route of inventions,
Aureliano Segundo lost the
last layers of fat that he had
left and the old resemblance
to his twin brother was
becoming accentuated again,
not only because of his slim
figure, but also because of the