One Hundred Years of Solitude

Remedios Buendía did not
give off a breath of love but a
fatal emanation. The occasion
for the proof of it came some
months later on one afternoon
when Remedios the Beauty
went with a group of girl
friends to look at the new
plantings. For the girls of
Macondo that novel game
was reason for laughter and
surprises, frights and jokes,
and at night they would talk
about their walk as if it had