A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross...
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross...
The years of immobilized waiting, of hoping for good luck, were behind him, but on the horizon he could see nothing more than the unfathomable sea of imaginary illnesses, the drop-by-drop urinations of sleepless nights, the daily death at twilight. He thought that all the moments in the day, which had once been his allies and sworn accomplices, were beginning to conspire against him.
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano BuendÃa was to remember that...