One Hundred Years of Solitude

was of no use. Arcadio
continued tightening the
tourniquet with unnecessary
rigor until he became the
cruelest ruler that Macondo
had ever known. Now let
them suffer the difference,
Don Apolinar Moscote said
on one occasion. This is the
Liberal paradise. Arcadio
found out about it. At the
head of a patrol he assaulted
the house, destroyed the
furniture, flogged the