José Arcadio Buendía tookhis wifes words literally. He
looked out the window and
saw the barefoot children in
the sunny garden and he had
the impression that only at
that instant had they begun to
exist, conceived by Úrsulas
spell, Something occurred
inside of him then, something
mysterious and definitive that
uprooted him from his own
time and carried him adrift
through an unexplored region