One Hundred Years of Solitude

smallpox scars, but his
amazing power for manual
destruction remained intact.
He broke so many plates,
even without touching them,
that Fernanda decided to buy
him a set of pewterware
before he did away with the
last pieces of her expensive
china, and even the resistant
metal plates were soon dented
and twisted. But to make up
for that irremediable power,
which was exasperating even