One Hundred Years of Solitude

memory that was turning into
a petrified polyp, and he
spoke to her about the priestly
destiny of Sanskrit, the
scientific possibility of seeing
the future showing through in
time as one sees what is
written on the back of a sheet
of paper through the light, the
necessity of deciphering the
predictions so that they would
not defeat themselves, and the
Centuries of Nostradamus
and the destruction of