One Hundred Years of Solitude

across from the cemetery and
established themselves there
with no other furniture but
José Arcadios hammock. On
their wedding night a
scorpion that had got into her
slipper bit Rebeca on the foot.
Her tongue went to sleep, but
that did not stop them from
spending a scandalous
honeymoon. The neighbors
were startled by the cries that
woke up the whole district as
many as eight times in a