One Hundred Years of Solitude

through the world. He
stripped the silver shop until
all that were left were
impersonal objects, he gave
his clothes away to the
orderlies, and he buried his
weapons in the courtyard
with the same feeling of
penance with which his father
had buried the spear that had
killed Prudencio Aguilar. He
kept only one pistol with one
bullet in it. Úrsula did not
intervene. The only time she