One Hundred Years of Solitude

secrets, José Arcadio Buendía
had the certainty that it was
the beginning of a great
friendship. The children were
startled by his fantastic
stories. Aureliano, who could
not have been more than five
at the time, would remember
him for the rest of his life as
he saw him that afternoon,
sitting against the metallic
and quivering light from the
window, lighting up with his
deep organ voice the darkest