One Hundred Years of Solitude

without knowing that they
were listening to her that the
corn grinder they had bought
from the first gypsies and that
had disappeared during the
time before José Arcadio, had
taken his sixty-five trips
around the world was still in
Pilar Terneras house. Also
almost a hundred years old,
but fit and agile in spite of her
inconceivable fatness, which
frightened children as her
laughter had frightened the