One Hundred Years of Solitude

of clear water whose
prehistoric stones had been
pulverized by the frantic
hammers of José Arcadio
Segundo when he set about
opening the channel in order
to establish a boat line. It was
a mad dream, comparable to
those of his great-grandfather,
for the rocky riverbed and the
numerous rapids prevented
navigation from Macondo to
the sea. But José Arcadio
Segundo, in an unforeseen