One Hundred Years of Solitude

wings, and across his pale
temples there flowed the
grease from his hair that had
been melted by the heat, just
as Aureliano and José
Arcadio had seen him when
they were children. Aureliano
Segundo recognized him at
once, because that hereditary
memory had been transmitted
from generation to generation
and had come to him through
the memory of his
grandfather.