Then Aureliano went allout. Giving her some small,
orphaned kisses in the hollow
of her wounded hand, he
opened up the most hidden
passageways of his heart and
drew out an interminable and
lacerated intestine, the terrible
parasitic animal that had
incubated in his martyrdom.
He told her how he would get
up at midnight to weep in
loneliness and rage over the
underwear that she had left to