One Hundred Years of Solitude

pretext to proclaim it. The
pretext was offered, in fact,
when the president of the
republic refused to award any
military pensions to former
combatants, Liberal or
Conservative, until each case
was examined by a special
commission and the award
approved by the congress.
Thats an outrage, thundered
Colonel Aureliano Buendía.
Theyll die of old age waiting
for the mail to come. For the