One Hundred Years of Solitude

delegates sat were the last
officers who were faithful to
Colonel Aureliano Buendía.
Before taking the signatures,
the personal delegate of the
president of the republic tried
to read the act of surrender
aloud, but Colonel Aureliano
Buendía was against it. Lets
not waste time on formalities,
he said and prepared to sign
the papers without reading
them. One of his officers then
broke the soporific silence of