One Hundred Years of Solitude

instruments of mortification
and penance, and drove the
children out of the house,
howling like a madman and
whipping them without mercy
as a person would not even
have done to a pack of
coyotes. He was done in, with
an attack of asthma that lasted
for several days and that gave
him the look of a man on his
deathbed. On the third night
of torture, overcome by
asphyxiation, he went to