One Hundred Years of Solitude

for Macondos greatest
benefactor. It was the first
burial and the best-attended
one that was ever seen in the
town, only surpassed, a
century later, by Big Mamas
funeral carnival. They buried
him in a grave dug in the
center of the plot destined for
the cemetery, with a stone on
which they wrote the only
thing they knew about him:
MELQUÍADES. They gave
him his nine nights of wake.