One Hundred Years of Solitude

and a permanent commercial
route over which the first
Arabs arrived with their
baggy pants and rings in their
ears, swapping glass beads
for macaws. José Arcadio
Buendía did not have a
moments rest. Fascinated by
an immediate reality that
came to be more fantastic
than the vast universe of his
imagination, he lost all
interest in the alchemists
laboratory, put to rest the