One Hundred Years of Solitude

Colonel Aureliano Buendía
and that she had brought him
to Úrsula to be baptized. No
one doubted the origins of
that nameless child: he
looked exactly like the
colonel at the time he was
taken to see ice for the first
time. The woman said that he
had been born with his eyes
open, looking at people with
the judgment of an adult, and
that she was frightened by his
way of staring at things