One Hundred Years of Solitude

her sisters shop, behind the
window shades in her house,
in her fathers office, but he
found her only in the image
that saturated his private and
terrible solitude. He would
spend whole hours with
Rebeca in the parlor listening
to the music on the pianola.
She was listening to it
because it was the music with
which Pietro Crespi had
taught them how to dance.
Aureliano listened to it