One Hundred Years of Solitude

and the old chests where they
kept their clothes exhaled the
warm smell of basil.

            José    Arcadio Buendía,    who

was the most enterprising
man ever to be seen in the
village, had set up the
placement of the houses in
such a way that from all of
them one could reach the
river and draw water with the
same effort, and he had lined
up the streets with such good