One Hundred Years of Solitude

made one think of Fernanda
and the hereditary vice of
making something just to
unmake it. Her festive genius
was still so alive then that
when she received new
records she would invite
Gaston to stay in the parlor
until very late to practice the
dance steps that her
schoolmates described to her
in sketches and they would
generally end up making love
on the Viennese rocking