One Hundred Years of Solitude

he began to wear his fathers,
but Visitación had to sew
pleats in the shirt and darts in
the pants, because Aureliano
had not sequined the
corpulence of the others.
Adolescence had taken away
the softness of his voice and
had made him silent and
definitely solitary, but, on the
other hand, it had restored the
intense expression that he had
had in his eyes when he was
born. He concentrated so