One Hundred Years of Solitude

ending at every moment but
never ending its ending. The
town had reached such
extremes of inactivity that
when Gabriel won the contest
and left for Paris with two
changes of clothing, a pair of
shoes, and the complete
works of Rabelais, he had to
signal the engineer to stop the
train and pick him up. The
old Street of the Turks was at
that time an abandoned
corner where the last Arabs