One Hundred Years of Solitude

colors, crocodiles as fat as
pigs, snakes with twelve
rattles, and a turtle with a
gilded shell who dove in a
small artificial ocean. There
was a big white dog, meek
and a pederast, who would
give stud services
nevertheless in order to be
fed. The atmosphere had an
innocent denseness, as if it
had just been created, and the
beautiful mulatto girls who
waited hopelessly among the