One Hundred Years of Solitude

poppies. Only then,
convinced that the story had
not been some product of his
fathers imagination, did he
wonder how the galleon had
been able to get inland to that
spot. But José Arcadio
Buendía did not concern
himself with that when he
found the sea after another
four days journey from the
galleon. His dreams ended as
he faced that ashen, foamy,
dirty sea, which had not