One Hundred Years of Solitude

events in the order of mans
conventional time, but had
concentrated a century of
daily episodes in such a way
that they coexisted in one
instant. Fascinated by the
discovery, Aureliano, read
aloud without skipping the
chanted encyclicals that
Melquíades himself had made
Arcadio listen to and that
were in reality the prediction
of his execution, and he
found the announcement of