One Hundred Years of Solitude

through raffled pigs and goats
that his daughter would get to
Brussels, so he conceived the
idea of organizing the
fabulous raffle of the lands
destroyed by the deluge,
which could easily be
restored by a person with the
money to do so. It was such a
spectacular undertaking that
the mayor himself lent his aid
by announcing it in a
proclamation, and
associations were formed to