One Hundred Years of Solitude

For the first time in her long
life Santa Sofía de la Piedad
let a feeling show through,
and it was a feeling of
wonderment when Aureliano
asked her to bring him the
book that could be found
between Jerusalem Delivered
and Miltons poems on the
extreme right-hand side of the
second shelf of the
bookcases. Since she could
not read, she memorized what
he had said and got some