One Hundred Years of Solitude

that Pietro Crespi brought
dissipated José Arcadio
Buendías affliction over the
death of Melquíades and
carried him back to his old
days as an alchemist. He
lived at that time in a paradise
of disemboweled animals, of
mechanisms that had been
taken apart in an attempt to
perfect them with a system of
perpetual motion based upon
the principles of the
pendulum. Aureliano, for his