One Hundred Years of Solitude

own aunt? he asked, startled.

            He  not only    can do  that,   a

soldier answered him. but
were fighting this war against
the priests so that a person
can marry his own mother.

Two weeks later he
deserted. He found Amaranta
more withered than in his
memory, more melancholy
and shy, and now really
turning the last corner of
maturity, but more feverish