One Hundred Years of Solitude

valuable gold. In risky and
desperate processes of
distillation, melted with the
seven planetary metals,
mixed with hermetic mercury
and vitriol of Cyprus, and put
back to cook in hog fat for
lack of any radish oil, Úrsulas
precious inheritance was
reduced to a large piece of
burnt hog cracklings that was
firmly stuck to the bottom of
the pot.