One Hundred Years of Solitude

the house, she had them build
him a special room next to
Aurelianos workshop, far
from the noise and bustle of
the house, with a window
flooded with light and a
bookcase where she herself
put in order the books that
were almost destroyed by
dust and moths, the flaky
stacks of paper covered with
indecipherable signs, and the
glass with his false teeth,
where some aquatic plants