One Hundred Years of Solitude

            Well,   Aureliano   said.   Tell

me what it is.

            Pilar   Ternera bit her lips

with a sad smile.

            That    youd    be  good    in  a

war, she said. Where you put
your eye, you put your bullet.

            Aureliano   relaxed with    the

proof of the omen. He went
back to concentrate on his
work as if nothing had
happened, and his voice took