One Hundred Years of Solitude

received it was celebrated
with jubilant proclamations,
but he would measure the real
extent of them on the map
and could see that his forces
were penetrating into the
jungle, defending themselves
against malaria and
mosquitoes, advancing in the
opposite direction from
reality. Were wasting time, he
would complain to his
officers. Were wasting time
while the bastards in the party