One Hundred Years of Solitude

no one discovered that she
was blind. She had noticed it
before the birth of José
Arcadio. At first she thought
it was a matter of a passing
debility and she secretly took
marrow syrup and put honey
on her eyes, but quite soon
she began to realize that she
was irrevocably sinking into
the darkness, to a point where
she never had a clear notion
of the invention of the electric
light, for when they put in the