One Hundred Years of Solitude

many questions that Petronio
lost his patience.

            I   go  Tuesday nights, he

confessed. if you promise not
to tell anyone Ill take you
next Tuesday.

            Indeed, on  the following

Tuesday Petronio came down
out of the tower with a
wooden stool which until
then no one had known the
use of, and he took José
Arcadio Segundo to a nearby