One Hundred Years of Solitude

before they were married,
when the sports biplane in
which he was making rolls
over the school where
Amaranta Úrsula was
studying made an intrepid
maneuver to avoid the
flagpole and the primitive
framework of canvas and
aluminum foil was caught by
the tail on some electric
wires. From then on, paying
no attention to his leg in
splints, on weekends he