One Hundred Years of Solitude

their crosses of ash.
Aureliano Triste was leaving
the house with his mother at
seven in the evening when a
rifle shot came out of the
darkness and perforated his
forehead. Aureliano Centeno
was found in the hammock
that he was accustomed to
hang up in the factory with an
icepick between his eyebrows
driven in up to the handle.
Aureliano Serrador had left
his girl friend at her parents