One Hundred Years of Solitude

puff paste. There he ate the
meals that Visitación brought
him twice a day, although in
the last days he lost his
appetite and fed only on
vegetables. He soon acquired
the forlorn look that one sees
in vegetarians. His skin
became covered with a thin
moss, similar to that which
flourished on the antique vest
that he never took off, and his
breath exhaled the odor of a
sleeping animal. Aureliano