One Hundred Years of Solitude

into such an insane state of
confusion that she thought
little Aureliano was her son
the colonel during the time he
was taken to see ice, and that
the José Arcadio who was at
that time in the seminary was
her firstborn who had gone
off with the gypsies. She
spoke so much about the
family that the children
learned to make up imaginary
visits with beings who had
not only been dead for a long