One Hundred Years of Solitude

pain of repressed virility, he
went to Catarinos. He found a
woman with flaccid breasts,
affectionate and cheap, who
calmed his stomach for some
time. He tried to apply the
treatment of disdain to
Amaranta. He would see her
on the porch working at the
sewing machine, which she
had learned to operate with
admirable skill, and he would
not even speak to her.
Amaranta felt freed of a reef,