One Hundred Years of Solitude

order to learn but to verify the
truth of his knowledge, and
that none of them interested
him more than the
parchments, to which he
dedicated most of his time in
the morning. Both Gaston and
his wife would have liked to
incorporate him into the
family life, but Aureliano was
a hermetic man with a cloud
of mystery that time was
making denser. It was such an
unfathomable condition that