One Hundred Years of Solitude

able to put a cord soaked in
iodine in through the chest
and withdraw it from the
back. That was my
masterpiece, he said with
satisfaction. It was the only
point where a bullet could
pass through without harming
any vital organ. Colonel
Aureliano Buendía saw
himself surrounded by
charitable novices who
intoned desperate psalms for
the repose of his soul and