One Hundred Years of Solitude

extended, but forcing the
limits of his imagination to
extremes. It was in that way
that the boys ended up
learning that in the southern
extremes of Africa there were
men so intelligent and
peaceful that their only
pastime was to sit and think,
and that it was possible to
cross the Aegean Sea on foot
by jumping from island to
island all the way to the port
of Salonika. Those