One Hundred Years of Solitude

startled excitement, unable to
explain them but interpreting
them as predictions of the
material. One day Amarantas
basket began to move by
itself and made a complete
turn about the room, to the
consternation of Auerliano,
who hurried to stop it. But his
father did not get upset. He
put the basket in its place and
tied it to the leg of a table,
convinced that the long-
awaited event was imminent.