One Hundred Years of Solitude

and the inexplicable
knowledge of the world that
his desolate kinsman had. He
discovered then that he could
understand written English
and that between parchments
he had gone from the first
page to the last of the six
volumes of the encyclopedia
as if it were a novel. At first
he attributed to that the fact
that Aureliano could speak
about Rome as if he had lived
there many years, but he soon