One Hundred Years of Solitude

answer her letters any more.
She felt so defeated by the
weight of an unknown word
that she decided to put shame
behind her and ask what a
pessary was, and only then
did she discover that the
French doctor had hanged
himself to a beam three
months earlier and had been
buried against the wishes of
the townspeople by a former
companion in arms of
Colonel Aureliano Buendía.