One Hundred Years of Solitude

that they were the same man,
and instead of making things
clear, he arranged to prolong
the situation. He did not
return to Melquíades room.
He would spend his
afternoons in the courtyard,
learning to play the accordion
by ear over the protests of
Úrsula, who at that time had
forbidden music in the house
because of the mourning and
who, in addition, despised the
accordion as an instrument