One Hundred Years of Solitude

anything else, Aureliano told
him without getting excited.
Youre nothing but a butcher.

In that case, the doctor
replied with equal calm, give
me back the bottle. You dont
need it any more.

            Only    six months  later   did

Aureliano learn that the
doctor had given up on him
as a man of action because he
was a sentimental person with
no future, with a passive