One Hundred Years of Solitude

Only then did Úrsula realize
that he was in a world of
shadows more impenetrable
than hers, as unreachable and
solitary as that of his great-
grandfather. She left him in
the room, but she succeeded
in getting them to leave the
padlock off, clean it every
day, throw the chamberpots
away except for one, and to
keep José Arcadio Segundo
as clean and presentable as
his great-grandfather had