One Hundred Years of Solitude

a velvet curtain with Greek
masks, and three box offices
in the shape of lions heads,
through whose mouths the
tickets were sold. It was also
about that time that the school
was rebuilt. It was put under
the charge of Don Melchor
Escalona, an old teacher
brought from the swamp, who
made his lazy students walk
on their knees in the lime-
coated courtyard and made
the students who talked in