One Hundred Years of Solitude

consulted the calendar and
left the following
Wednesday, planning to
return after the rains had
passed. There was no more
news of him. Aureliano
Centeno, overwhelmed by the
abundance of the factory, had
already begun to experiment
with the production of ice
with a base of fruit juices
instead of water, and without
knowing it or thinking about
it, he conceived the essential