One Hundred Years of Solitude

masses in Catarinos store,
would go to church with an
aim to see, if only for an
instant, the face of Remedios
the Beauty, whose legendary
good looks were spoken of
with alarming excitement
throughout the swamp. It was
a long time before they were
able to do so, and it would
have been better for them if
they never had, because most
of them never recovered their
peaceful habits of sleep. The