One Hundred Years of Solitude

time looking for the shears
that she was sure she had put
on the bed and after turning
everything upside down she
would find them on a shelf in
the kitchen, where she
thought she had not been for
four days. Suddenly there was
no fork in the silver chest and
she would find six on the
altar and three in the
washroom. That wandering
about of things was even
more exasperating when she