One Hundred Years of Solitude

peso and fifty cents that he
had asked Amaranta Úrsula
for, not so much because he
needed it as to involve her,
debase her, prostitute her in
his adventure in some way.
Nigromanta took him to her
room, which was lighted with
false candlesticks, to her
folding cot with the bedding
stained from bad loves, and to
her body of a wild dog,
hardened and without soul,
which prepared itself to