One Hundred Years of Solitude

first Friday in May he
received communion, tortured
by curiosity. Later on he
asked Petronio, the sickly
sexton who lived in the belfry
and who, according to what
they said, fed himself on bats,
about it, and Petronio,
answered him: There are
some corrupt Christians who
do their business with female
donkeys. José Arcadio
Segundo still showed so
much curiosity and asked so