One Hundred Years of Solitude

visit and by that time her
husband was not in a mood to
appreciate her short skirts, her
tilted felt hat, and her seven-
strand necklaces. Her secret
seemed to lie in the fact that
she always found a way to
keep busy, resolving
domestic problems that she
herself had created, and doing
a poor job on a thousand
things which she would fix on
the following day with a
pernicious diligence that