One Hundred Years of Solitude

he made one last effort to
search in his heart for the
place where his affection had
rotted away and he could not
find it. On another occasion,
he felt at least a confused
sense of shame when he
found the smell of Úrsula on
his own skin, and more than
once he felt her thoughts
interfering with his. But all of
that had been wiped out by
the war. Even Remedios, his
wife, at that moment was a