One Hundred Years of Solitude

the drink on his uniform, the
barbarian cut him to pieces
with his machete, and with
one stroke he cut off the head
of the grandfather as he tried
to stop him. The whole town
saw the decapitated man pass
by as a group of men carried
him to his house, with a
woman dragging the head
along by its hair, and the
bloody sack with the pieces
of the child.