One Hundred Years of Solitude

all types: idealists, ambitious
people, adventurers, those
with social resentments, even
common criminals. There
was even a former
Conservative functionary
who had taken refuge in the
revolt to escape a judgment
for misappropriation of funds.
Many of them did not even
know why they were fighting
in the midst of that motley
crowd, whose differences of
values were on the verge of