One Hundred Years of Solitude

and one night he appeared
suddenly in Catarinos store.
The whole town went to
listen to him to find out what
had happened in the world.
On that occasion there arrived
with him a woman who was
so fat that four Indians had to
carry her in a rocking chair,
and an adolescent mulatto girl
with a forlorn look who
protected her from the sun
with an umbrella. Aureliano
went to Catarinos store that