One Hundred Years of Solitude

coincidence was the
beginning of a great
friendship. Aureliano
continued getting together in
the afternoon with the four
arguers, whose names were
Álvaro, Germán, Alfonso,
and Gabriel, the first and last
friends that he ever had in his
life. For a man like him,
holed up in written reality,
those stormy sessions that
began in the bookstore and
ended at dawn in the brothels