One Hundred Years of Solitude

sought his support for the
approval of lifetime pensions,
which had always been
promised and were always
about to be put into effect.
Forget about it, he told them.
You can see how I refuse my
pension in order to get rid of
the torture of waiting for it
until the day I died. At first
Colonel Gerineldo Márquez
would visit him at dusk and
they would both sit in the
street door and talk about the