One Hundred Years of Solitude

Arcadio Buendía woke up
beside her and was happy
with the idea that his son was
going to be a ventriloquist.
Other people predicted that
he would be a prophet. She,
on the other hand, shuddered
from the certainty that the
deep moan was a first
indication of the fearful pig
tail and she begged God to let
the child die in her womb.
But the lucidity of her old age
allowed her to see, and she