One Hundred Years of Solitude

            The ceremony    took    place

fifteen miles from Macondo
in the shade of a gigantic
ceiba tree around which the
town of Neerlandia would be
founded later. The delegates
from the government and the
party and the commission of
the rebels who were laying
down their arms were served
by a noisy group of novices
in white habits who looked
like a flock of doves that had
been frightened by the rain.