One Hundred Years of Solitude

shrimp, with her head bald
from ringworm and her finger
in her mouth. Aureliano
Segundo took charge of the
funeral and tried to restore the
house in order to sell it, but
the destruction was so far
advanced in it that the walls
became scaly as soon as they
were painted and there was
not enough mortar to stop the
weeds from cracking the
floors and the ivy from
rotting the beams.