One Hundred Years of Solitude

and then it could be seen that
once more in death they had
become as Identical as they
had been until adolescence.
Aureliano Segundos old
carousing comrades laid on
his casket a wreath that had a
purple ribbon with the words:
Cease, cows, life is short.
Fernanda was so indignant
with such irreverence that she
had the wreath thrown onto
the trash heap. In the tumult
of the last moment, the sad