One Hundred Years of Solitude

fame as a great, unprincipled
eater had spread throughout
the country. From the first
moment she saw him she saw
that Aureliano Segundo
would lose not his stomach
but his character. At the end
of the first night, while The
Elephant was boldly going
on, Aureliano Segundo was
wearing himself out with a
great deal of talking and
laughing. They slept four
hours. On awakening each