One Hundred Years of Solitude

there she chose the finest
twenty-five pairs of canaries
so that she could repopulate
the skies of Macondo. That
was the most lamentable of
her numerous frustrated
undertakings. As the birds
reproduced Amaranta Úrsula
would release them in pairs,
and no sooner did they feel
themselves free than they fled
the town. She tried in vain to
awaken love in them by
means of the bird cage that