One Hundred Years of Solitude

not sleeping because there
was so much to do in
Macondo in those days that
there was barely enough time.
They worked so hard that
soon they had nothing else to
do and they could be found at
three oclock in the morning
with their arms crossed,
counting the notes in the
waltz of the clock. Those who
wanted to sleep, not from
fatigue but because of the
nostalgia for dreams, tried all