One Hundred Years of Solitude

hatchet and threw the pieces
into the fire. Hours before,
Pilar Ternera had come to
visit him. After so many
years of not seeing her,
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
was startled at how old and
fat she had become and how
much she had lost of the
splendor of her laugh, but he
was also startled at the depths
she had reached in her
reading of the cards. Watch
out for your mouth, she told