One Hundred Years of Solitude

never known. He became
argumentative, a barroom
brawler, and he would wake
up rolling in his own filth in
Catarinos store. The saddest
part of his drama was that
Remedios the Beauty did not
notice him not even when he
appeared in church dressed
like a prince. She accepted
the yellow rose without the
least bit of malice, amused,
rather, by the extravagance of
the act, and she lifted her