One Hundred Years of Solitude

time on the parish priest
began to show the signs of
senility that would lead him
to say years later that the
devil had probably won his
rebellion against God, and
that he was the one who sat
on the heavenly throne,
without revealing his true
identity in order to trap the
unwary. Warmed up by the
persistence of his mentor, in a
few months José Arcadio
Segundo came to be as adept