That was how everythingwent after the deluge. The
indolence of the people was
in contrast to the voracity of
oblivion, which little by little
was undermining memories
in a pitiless way, to such an
extreme that at that time, on
another anniversary of the
Treaty of Neerlandia, some
emissaries from the president
of the republic arrived in
Macondo to award at last the
decoration rejected several