One Hundred Years of Solitude

seven oclock on he would
play dominoes with his
father-in-law. At lunchtime
he was chatting with Arcadio,
who was already a huge
adolescent, and he found him
more and more excited over
the imminence of war. In
school, where Arcadio had
pupils older than himself
mixed in with children who
were barely beginning to talk,
the Liberal fever had caught
on. There was talk of