One Hundred Years of Solitude

apparatus to make a person
forget his bad memories, and
a poultice to lose time, and a
thousand more inventions so
ingenious and unusual that
José Arcadio Buendía must
have wanted to invent a
memory machine so that he
could remember them all. In
an instant they transformed
the village. The inhabitants of
Macondo found themselves
lost is their own streets,
confused by the crowded fair.