One Hundred Years of Solitude

parchments became one
hundred years old, when they
could be deciphered. It was
he who indicated to
Aureliano that on the narrow
street going down to the river,
where dreams had been
interpreted during the time of
the banana company, a wise
Catalonian had a bookstore
where there was a Sanskrit
primer, which would be eaten
by the moths within six years
if he did not hurry to buy it.