One Hundred Years of Solitude

their wealth with her
marvelous business of
candied little roosters and
fish, which left the house
twice a day strung along
sticks of balsa wood,
Aureliano spent interminable
hours in the abandoned
laboratory, learning the art of
silverwork by his own
experimentation. He had shot
up so fast that in a short time
the clothing left behind by his
brother no longer fit him and