One Hundred Years of Solitude

beast whose breath scorched
the air and whose look
brought on the birth of
monsters in newlywed
women. There were not many
who paid attention to his
apocalyptic talk, for the town
was convinced that the priest
was rambling because of his
age. But one woman woke
everybody up at dawn on
Wednesday because she
found the tracks of a biped
with a cloven hoof. They