One Hundred Years of Solitude

order to climb the greased
pole, and she was at the point
of bringing on a tragedy
among the seventeen cousins,
who were driven mad by the
unbearable spectacle. That
was why none of them slept
at the house when they visited
the town and the four who
had stayed lived in rented
rooms at Úrsulas insistence.
Remedios the Beauty,
however, would have died
laughing if she had known