One Hundred Years of Solitude

order to find him in the
shadows, in some way
impossible to ascertain, after
so many years of absence.
José Arcadio was still an
autumnal child, terribly sad
and solitary. He went directly
to his mothers bedroom,
where Aureliano had boiled
mercury for four months in
his grandfathers grandfathers
water pipe to conserve the
body according to
Melquíades formula. José