One Hundred Years of Solitude

brought back to Aureliano
Segundo the high hopes that
Meme had inspired in him.
He had promised her to send
her to finish her studies in
Brussels, in accord with a
custom established during the
time of the banana company,
and that illusion had brought
him to attempt to revive the
lands devastated by the
deluge. The few times that he
appeared at the house were
for Amaranta Úrsula, because