One Hundred Years of Solitude

Aureliano asked the
neighbors for help. Ten men
were needed to get him down,
fourteen to tie him up, twenty
to drag him to the chestnut
tree in the courtyard, where
they left him tied up, barking
in the strange language and
giving off a green froth at the
mouth. When Úrsula and
Amaranta returned he was
still tied to the trunk of the
chestnut tree by his hands and
feet, soaked with rain and in a