One Hundred Years of Solitude

time when he was trying to
prove the existence of God by
means of tricks with
chocolate. He began to have
that feeling that he was one of
the seventeen Aurelianos,
whose birth certificates he
tracked down as he went
through four volumes, but the
baptism dates were too far
back for his age. Seeing him
lost in the labyrinths of
kinship, trembling with
uncertainty, the arthritic