One Hundred Years of Solitude

were getting ready to eat and
without saying anything they
would cover their plates and
go into the bedroom dying of
hunger and of love. Inspired
by the things he had seen on
his furtive visits to the French
matrons, Aureliano Segundo
bought Petra Cotes a bed with
an archiepiscopal canopy, put
velvet curtains on the
windows, and covered the
ceiling and the walls of the
bedroom with large rock-