One Hundred Years of Solitude

philosophers stone, the
Centuries of Nostradamus
and his research concerning
the plague, so that he reached
adolescence without knowing
a thing about his own time
but with the basic knowledge
of a medieval man. Any time
that Santa Sofía de la Piedad
would go into his room she
would find him absorbed in
his reading. At dawn she
would bring him a mug of
coffee without sugar and at