One Hundred Years of Solitude

who came from the Upar
Valley, those who came from
the swamp, and no one could
tell him because Macondo
was a town that was unknown
to the dead until Melquíades
arrived and marked it with a
small black dot on the motley
maps of death. José Arcadio
Buendía conversed with
Prudencio Aguilar until
dawn. A few hours later,
worn out by the vigil, he went
into Aurelianos workshop and