One Hundred Years of Solitude

shirt pocket. He would take it
out every two hours, put three
pills in the palm of his hand,
and pop them into his mouth
for them to be slowly
dissolved on his tongue. Don
Apolinar Moscote made fun
of his faith in homeopathy,
but those who were in on the
plot recognized another one
of their people in him.
Almost all of the sons of the
founders were implicated,
although none of them knew