One Hundred Years of Solitude

his left. His twin brother, the
supposed José Arcadio
Segundo, broke his bread
with his left hand and drank
his soup with his right. So
precise was their coordination
that they did not look like two
brothers sitting opposite each
other but like a trick with
mirrors. The spectacle that
the twins had invented when
they became aware that they
were equal was repeated in
honor of the new arrival. But