One Hundred Years of Solitude

would leap back over three
hundred years of fate and
curse the day that Sir Francis
Drake had attacked Riohacha.
It was simply a way. of
giving herself some relief,
because actually they were
joined till death by a bond
that was more solid that love:
a common prick of
conscience. They were
cousins. They had grown up
together in the old village that
both of their ancestors, with