One Hundred Years of Solitude

with his bristly and graying
hair, his card board collar
attached to his shirt by a
copper button, and an
expression of startled
solemnity, whom Úrsula
described, dying with
laughter, as a frightened
general. José Arcadio
Buendía was, in fact,
frightened on that dear
December morning when the
daguerreotype was made, for
he was thinking that people