One Hundred Years of Solitude

            I   dont    understand, she said.

Pilar Ternera seemed
disconcerted:

            I   dont    either, but thats   what

the cards say.

            Rebeca  was so  preoccupied

with the enigma that she told
it to José Arcadio Buendía,
and he scolded her for
believing in the predictions of
the cards, but he undertook
the silent task of searching