One Hundred Years of Solitude

human burden, an earthly
condition that kept him
involved in the small
problems of daily life. He
would complain of the
ailments of old age, he
suffered from the most
insignificant economic
difficulties, and he had
stopped laughing a long time
back because scurvy had
made his teeth drop out. On
that suffocating noontime
when the gypsy revealed his