One Hundred Years of Solitude

away so many dead birds,
especially at siesta time, and
the men dumped them into
the river by the cartload. On
Easter Sunday the hundred-
year-old Father Antonio
Isabel stated from the pulpit
that the death of the birds was
due to the evil influence of
the Wandering Jew, whom he
himself had seen the night
before. He described him as a
cross between a billy goat and
a female heretic, an infernal