trap of nostalgia and relived
that prodigious afternoon Of
the gypsies when his father
took him to see ice. Santa
Sofía de la Piedad dropped
what she was doing in the
kitchen and ran to the door.
Its the circus, she shouted.
Instead of going to the
chestnut tree, Colonel
Aureliano Buendía also went
to the street door and mingled
with the bystanders who,