One Hundred Years of Solitude

interminable nights of music,
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
threatened to cure his
affliction with a few pistol
shots. Nothing made him
desist except his own
lamentable state of
demoralization. From a well-
dressed and neat individual
he became filthy and ragged.
It was rumored that he had
abandoned power and fortune
in his distant nation, although
his origins were actually