One Hundred Years of Solitude

She felt him to be so far away
and busy that his return
seemed impossible to her. In
one of his first letters he told
her that his Partners had
actually sent the airplane, but
that a shipping agent in
Brussels had sent it by
mistake to Tanganyika, where
it was delivered to the
scattered tribe of the
Makondos. That mix-up
brought on so many
difficulties that just to get the