One Hundred Years of Solitude

mean anything: the lines were
in code. Aureliano lacked the
means to establish the keys
that would permit him to dig
them out, but since
Melquíades had told him that
the books he needed to get to
the bottom of the parchments
were in the wise Catalonians
store, he decided to speak to
Fernanda so that she would
let him get them. In the room
devoured by rubble, whose
unchecked proliferation had