One Hundred Years of Solitude

roommates at some period,
and he knew many things that
should not have been known,
such as the fact that Saint
Augustine wore a wool jacket
under his habit that he did not
take off for fourteen years
and that Arnaldo of
Villanova, the necromancer,
was impotent since childhood
because of a scorpion bite.
His fervor for the written
word was an interweaving of
solemn respect and gossipy