Many years later that child
would still tell, in spite of
people thinking that he was a
crazy old man, how José
Arcadio Segundo had lifted
him over his head and hauled
him, almost in the air, as if
floating on the terror of the
crowd, toward a nearby
street. The childs privileged
position allowed him to see at
that moment that the wild
mass was starting to get to the
corner and the row of