One Hundred Years of Solitude

demands. On the following
day he appeared before the
judges with his hair dyed
black and speaking flawless
Spanish. The lawyers showed
that the man was not Mr. Jack
Brown, the superintendent of
the banana company, born in
Prattville Alabama, but a
harmless vendor of medicinal
plants, born in Macondo and
baptized there with the name
of Dagoberto Fonseca. A
while later, faced with a new