One Hundred Years of Solitude

and critical that soon he was
treated as one of those useless
great-grandfathers who
wander about the bedrooms
like shades, dragging their
feet, remembering better
times aloud, and whom no
one bothers about or
remembers really until the
morning they find them dead
in their bed. At first José
Arcadio Buendía helped him
in his work, enthusiastic over
the novelty of the