One Hundred Years of Solitude

necklaces made out of the
backbones of fish. But except
for Mercedes, who bought a
dozen, she could not find any
customers. Aureliano was
aware for the first time that
his gift for languages, his
encyclopedic knowledge, his
rare faculty for remembering
the details of remote deeds
and places without having
been there, were as useless as
the box of genuine jewelry
that his wife owned, which