One Hundred Years of Solitude

several days repeating the
demonstration of levitation by
means of chocolate while the
acolyte collected so much
money in a bag that in less
than a month he began the
construction of the church.
No one doubted the divine
origin of the demonstration
except José Arcadio Buendía,
who without changing
expression watched the troop
of people who gathered
around the chestnut tree one