One Hundred Years of Solitude

officers in a wide sector along
the coast. One time when he
was forced by strategic
circumstances to abandon a
stronghold to the forces of
Colonel Aureliano Buendía,
he left two letters for him. In
one of them quite long, he
invited him to join in a
campaign to make war more
humane. The other letter was
for his wife, who lived in
Liberal territory, and he left it
with a plea to see that it