the doorjamb so that the
stench would not knock her
over, but she needed only two
seconds to remember that the
schoolgirls seventy-two
chamberpots were in there
and that on one of the rainy
nights a patrol of soldiers had
searched the house looking
for José Arcadio Segundo and
had been unable to find him.
Lord save us! she
exclaimed, as if she could see