One Hundred Years of Solitude

long time after it had begun,
when he heard the child
talking about the killing at the
station. It happened once
when someone at the table
complained about the ruin
into which the town had sunk
when the banana company
had abandoned it, and
Aureliano contradicted him
with maturity and with the
vision of a grown person. His
point of view, contrary to the
general interpretation, was