One Hundred Years of Solitude

walking about with her right
arm raised like the Archangel
Gabriel. Fernanda, however,
realized that there was a sun
of clairvoyance in the
shadows of that wandering,
for Úrsula could say without
hesitation how much money
had been spent in the house
during the previous year.
Amaranta had a similar idea
one day as her mother was
stirring a pot of soup in the
kitchen and said all at once