One Hundred Years of Solitude

and showed them to the
audience for an instant-a
fleeting instant in which he
went back to being the same
decrepit man of years past-
and put them back again and
smiled once more with the
full control of his restored
youth. Even José Arcadio
Buendía himself considered
that Melquíades knowledge
had reached unbearable
extremes, but he felt a healthy
excitement when the gypsy