One Hundred Years of Solitude

Fernandas bedroom, where
the charms of sedentary love
were visible, to the beginning
of the porch, where Amaranta
Úrsula would sit to sew
bootees and bonnets for the
newborn baby and Aureliano,
would answer the occasional
letters from the wise
Catalonian. The rest of the
house was given over to the
tenacious assault of
destruction. The silver shop,
Melquíades room, the