One Hundred Years of Solitude

Around the time of the
riddle lottery, Aureliano
Segundo began waking up
with a knot in his throat, as if
he were repressing a desire to
weep. Petra Cotes interpreted
it as one more of so many
upsets brought on by the bad
situation, and every morning
for over a year she would
touch his palate with a dash
of honey and give him some
radish syrup. When the knot
in his throat became so