One Hundred Years of Solitude

laying ties and tracks and no
one paid attention to them
because they thought it was
some new trick of the
gypsies, coming back with
whistles and tambourines and
their age-old and discredited
song and dance about the
qualities of some concoction
put together by journeyman
geniuses of Jerusalem. But
when they recovered from the
noise of the whistles and the
snorting, all the inhabitants