One Hundred Years of Solitude

barricades had been broken
and the defenders were
openly fighting in the streets,
first until they used up their
ration of rifle bullets, then
with pistols against rifles, and
finally hand to hand. With the
imminence of defeat, some
women went into the street
armed with sticks and kitchen
knives. In that confusion
Arcadio found Amaranta,
who was looking for him like
a madwoman, in her