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secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. He would get up at five in the morning after a
light sleep, have his eternal mug of bitter coffee in the kitchen, shut himself up all day in the workshop, and at
four in the afternoon he would go along the porch dragging a stool, not even noticing the fire of the rose bushes
or the brightness of the hour or the persistence of Amaranta, whose melancholy made the noise of a boiling pot,
which was perfectly perceptible at dusk, and he would sit in the street door as long as the mosquitoes would
allow him to. Someone dared to disturb his solitude once.
“How are you, Colonel??he asked in passing.
“Right here,?he answered. “Waiting for my funeral procession to pass.?
So that the anxiety caused by the public reappearance of his family name, having to do with the coronation of
Remedios the Beauty, was baseless. Many people did not think that way,world of warcraft gold, however. Innocent of the tragedy that
threatened it, the town poured into the main square in a noisy explosion of merriment. The carnival had reached
its highest level of madness and Aureliano Segundo had satisfied at last his dream of dressing up like a tiger and
was walking along the wild throng, hoarse from so much roaring, when on the swamp road a parade of several
people appeared carrying in a gilded litter the most fascinating woman that imagination could conceive. For a
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moment the inhabitants of Macondo took off their masks in order to get a better look at the dazzling creature
with a crown of emeralds and an ermine cape, who seemed invested with legitimate authority,cheap runescape gold, and was not
merely a sovereign of bangles and crepe paper. There were many people who had sufficient insight to suspect
that it was a question of provocation. But Aureliano Segundo immediately conquered his perplexity and declared
the new arrivals to be guests of honor, and with the wisdom of Solomon he seated Remedios the Beauty and the
intruding queen on the same dais. Until midnight the strangers, disguised as bedouins, took part in the delirium
and even enriched it with sumptuous fireworks and acrobatic skills that made one think of the art of the gypsies.
Suddenly,warcraft gold, during the paroxysm of the celebration, someone broke the delicate balance.
“Long live the Liberal party!?he shouted. “Long live Colonel Aureliano Buendaa!?
The rifle shots drowned out the splendor of the fireworks and the cries of terror drowned out the music and joy
turned into panic. Many years later there were those who still insisted that the royal guard of the intruding queen
was a squad of regular army soldiers who were concealing government-issue rifles under their rich Moorish
robes. The government denied the charge in a special proclamation and promised a complete investigation of the
bloody episode. But the truth never came to light, and the version always prevailed that the royal guard, without
provocation of any kind, took up combat positions upon a signal from their commander and opened fire without
pity on the crowd. When calm was restored,runescape money, not one of the false bedouins remained in town and there were many
dead and wounded lying on the square: nine clowns, four Columbines, seventeen playing-card kings, one devil,
three minstrels, two peers of France, and three Japanese empresses. In the confusion of the panic Jos?Arcadio
Segundo managed to rescue Remedios the Beauty and Aureliano Segundo carried the intruding queen to the
house in his arms, her dress torn and the ermine cape stained with blood. Her name was Fernanda del Carpio.

Aureliano Segundo played the accordion at his concubine’s noisy parties, she thought she would go mad with the
combination. It was as if the defects of the family and none of the virtues had been concentrated in both. Then
she decided that no one again would be called Aureliano or Jos?Arcadio. Yet when Aureliano Segundo had his
first son she did not dare go against his will.
“All right,buy l2 adena,?2rsula said, “but on one condition: I will bring him up.?
Although she was already a hundred years old and on the point of going blind from cataracts, she still had her
physical dynamism, her integrity of character, and her mental balance intact. No one would be better able than
she to shape the virtuous man who would restore the prestige of the family, a man who would never have heard
talk of war, fighting cocks, bad women, or wild undertakings, four calamities that, according to what 2rsula
thought, had determined the downfall. of their line. “This one will be a priest,?she promised solemnly. “And if
God gives me life he’ll be Pope someday.?They all laughed when they heard her, not only in the bedroom but all
through the house, where Aureliano Segundo’s rowdy friends were gathered. The war, relegated to the attic of
bad memories, was momentarily recalled with the popping of champagne bottles.
“To the health of the Pope,cheap runescape gold,?Aureliano Segundo toasted.
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The guests toasted in a chorus. Then the man of the house played the accordion, fireworks were set off,runescape money, and
drums celebrated the event throughout the town. At dawn the guests,lotro power leveling, soaked in champagne, sacrificed six cows
and put them in the street at the disposal of the crowd. No one was scandalized. Since Aureliano Segundo had
taken charge of the house those festivities were a common thing, even when there was no motive as proper as the
birth of a Pope. In a few years, without effort, simply by luck, he had accumulated one of the largest fortunes in
the swamp thanks to the supernatural proliferation of his animals. His mares would bear triplets, his hens laid
twice a day, and his hogs fattened with such speed that no one could explain such disorderly fecundity except
through the use of black magic. “Save something now,?2rsula would tell her wild great-grandson. “This luck is
not going to last all your life.?But Aureliano Segundo paid no attention to her. The more he opened champagne
to soak his friends, the more wildly his animals gave birth and the more he was convinced that his lucky star was
not a matter of his conduct but an influence of Petra Cotes, his concubine, whose love had the virtue of
exasperating nature. So convinced was he that this was the origin of his fortune that he never kept Petra Cotes far
away from his breeding grounds and even when he married and had children he continued living with her with
the consent of Fernanda. Solid, monumental like his grandfathers, but with a joie de vivre and an irresistible
good humor that they did not have, Aureliano Segundo scarcely had time to look after his animals. All he had to
do was to take Petra Cores to his breeding grounds and have her ride across his land in order to have every
animal marked with his brand succumb to the irremediable plague of proliferation.
Like all the good things that occurred in his long life, that tremendous fortune had its origins in chance. Until
the end of the wars Petra Cotes continued to support herself with the returns from her raffles and Aureliano

parlor lighted by an eternal lamp. “That picture stopped belonging to you a long time ago,?she told him. “It’s a
family relic.?On the eve of the armistice, when no single object that would let him be remembered was left in the
house, he took the trunk of poetry to the bakery when Santa Sofaa de la Piedad was making ready to light the
oven.
“Light it with this,?he told her, handing her the first roll of yellowish papers. “It will, burn better because
they’re very old things.?
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Santa Sofaa de la Piedad, the silent one, the condescending one, the one who never contradicted anyone,wow power leveling, not
even her own children, had the impression that it was a forbidden act.
“They’re important papers,?she said.
“Nothing of the sort,?the colonel said. “They’re things that a person writes to himself.?
“In that case,?she said, “you burn them, colonel.?
He not only did that, but he broke up the trunk with a hatchet and threw the pieces into the fire. Hours before,
Pilar Ternera had come to visit him. After so many years of not seeing her, Colonel Aureliano Buendaa was
startled at how old and fat she had become and how much she had lost of the splendor of her laugh, but he was
also startled at the depths she had reached in her reading of the cards. “Watch out for your mouth,?she told him,
and he wondered whether the other time she had told him that during the height of his glory it had not been a
surprisingly anticipated vision of his fate. A short time later, when his personal physician finished removing his
sores, he asked him, without showing any particular interest,ffxi power leveling, where the exact location of his heart was. The
doctor listened with his stethoscope and then painted a circle on his cheat with a piece of cotton dipped in iodine.
The Tuesday of the armistice dawned warm and rainy. Colonel Aureliano Buendaa appeared in the kitchen
before five o’clock and had his usual black coffee without sugar. “You came into the world on a day like this,?
2rsula told him. “Everybody was amazed at your open eyes.?He did not pay any attention because he was
listening to the forming of the troops, the sound of the comets, and the voices of command that were shattering
the dawn. Even though after so many years of war they should have sounded familiar to him this time he felt the
same weakness in his knees and the same tingling in his skin that he had felt in his youth in the presence of a
naked woman. He thought confusedly, finally captive in a trap of nostalgia, that perhaps if he had married her he
would have been a man without war and without glory, a nameless artisan, a happy animal. That tardy shudder
which had not figured in his forethought made his breakfast bitter. At seven in the morning,runescape money, when Colonel
Gerineldo Mrquez came to fetch him,cheap runescape gold, in the company of a group of rebel officers, he found him more taciturn
than ever, more pensive and solitary. 2rsula tried to throw a new wrap over his shoulders. “What will the
government think,?she told him. “They’ll figure that you’ve surrendered because you didn’t have anything left to
buy a cloak with.?But he would not accept it. When he was at the door, he let her put an old felt hat of Jos?
Arcadio Buendaa’s on his head.
“Aureliano,?2rsula said to him then, “Promise me that if you find that it’s a bad hour for you there that you’ll

it as the return of the strayed lamb. But she was mistaken. She had lost Arcadio, not when he had put on his
military uniform, but from the beginning. She thought she had raised him as a son, as she had raised Rebeca,
with no privileges or discrimination. Nevertheless,cheap ragnarok online zeny, Arcadio was a solitary and frightened child during the
insomnia plague, in the midst of 2rsula’s utilitarian fervor, during the delirium of Jos?Arcadio Buendaa, the
hermetism of Aureliano, and the mortal rivalry between Amaranta and Rebeca. Aureliano had taught him to read
and write, thinking about other things, as he would have done with a stranger. He gave him his clothing so that
Visitaci?n could take it in when it was ready to be thrown away. Arcadio suffered from shoes that were too large,
from his patched pants,ragnarok zeny, from his female buttocks. He never succeeded in communicating with anyone better than
he did with Visitaci?n and Cataure in their language. Melquaades was the only one who really was concerned
with him as he made him listen to his incomprehensible texts and gave him lessons in the art of daguerreotype.
No one imagined how much he wept in secret and the desperation with which he tried to revive Melquaades with
the useless study of his papers. The school, where they paid attention to him and respected him, and then power,
with his endless decrees and his glorious uniform, freed him from the weight of an old bitterness. One night in
Catarino’s store someone dared tell him, “you don’t deserve the last name you carry.?Contrary to what everyone
expected,rs gold, Arcadio did not have him shot.
“To my great honor,?he said, “I am not a Buendaa.?
Those who knew the secret of his parentage thought that the answer meant that he too was aware of it, but he
had really never been. Pilar Ternera, his mother, who had made his blood boil in the darkroom, was as much an
irresistible obsession for him as she had been first for Jos?Arcadio and then for Aureliano. In spite of her having
lost her charms and the splendor of her laugh, he sought her out and found her by the trail of her smell of smoke.
A short time before the war, one noon when she was later than usual in coming for her younger son at school,
Arcadio was waiting for her in the room where he was accustomed to take his siesta and where he later set up the
stocks. While the child played in the courtyard, he waited in his hammock, trembling with anxiety, knowing that
Pillar Ternera would have to pass through there. She arrived. Arcadio grabbed her by the wrist and tried to pull
her into the hammock. “I can’t, I can’t,?Pilar Ternera said in horror. “You can’t imagine how much I would like
to make you happy, but as God is my witness I can’t.?Arcadio took her by the waist with his tremendous
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hereditary strength and he felt the world disappear with the contact of her skin. “Don’t play the saint,?he said.
“After all, everybody knows that you’re a whore.?Pilar overcame the disgust that her miserable fate inspired in
her.
“The children will find out,cheap runescape gold,?she murmured. “It will be better if you leave the bar off the door tonight.?
Arcadio waited for her that night trembling with fever in his hammock. He waited without sleeping, listening
to the aroused crickets in the endless hours of early morning and the implacable telling of time by the curlews,
more and more convinced that he had been deceived. Suddenly, when anxiety had broken down into rage, the
door opened. A few months later, facing the firing squad, Arcadio would relive the wandering steps in the

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not lift itself. On Thursday he appeared in the workshop again with the painful look of plowed ground. “The time
machine has broken,?he almost sobbed, “and 2rsula and Amaranta so far away!?Aureliano scolded him like a
child and he adopted a contrite air. He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their
appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of
time. He spent the whole night in bed with his eyes open, calling to Prudencio Aguilar, to Melquaades, to all the
dead,cheap wow gold, so that they would share his distress. But no one came. On Friday. before anyone arose, he watched the
appearance of nature again until he did not have the slightest doubt but that it was Monday. Then he grabbed the
bar from a door and with the savage violence of his uncommon strength he smashed to dust the equipment in the
alchemy laboratory,gaia gold, the daguerreotype room,runescape power leveling, the silver workshop, shouting like a man possessed in some high-
sounding and fluent but completely incomprehensible language. He was about to finish off the rest of the house
when Aureliano asked the neighbors for help. Ten men were needed to get him down, fourteen to tie him up,
twenty to drag him to the chestnut tree in the courtyard, where they left him tied up, barking in the strange
language and giving off a green froth at the mouth. When 2rsula and Amaranta returned he was still tied to the
trunk of the chestnut tree by his hands and feet, soaked with rain and in a state of total innocence. They spoke to
him and he looked at them without recognizing them, saying things they did not understand. 2rsula untied his
wrists and ankles, lacerated by the pressure of the rope, and left him tied only by the waist. Later on they built
him a shelter of palm brandies to protect him from the sun and the rain.
Chapter 5
AURELIANO BUENDaA and Remedios Moscote were married one Sunday in March before the altar Father
Nicanor Reyna had set up in the parlor. It was the culmination of four weeks of shocks in the Moscote household
because little Remedios had reached puberty before getting over the habits of childhood. In spite of the fact that
her mother had taught her about the changes of adolescence, one February afternoon she burst shouting into the
living room, where her sisters were chatting with Aureliano, and showed them her panties, smeared with a
chocolate-colored paste. A month for the wedding was agreed upon. There was barely enough time to teach her
how to wash herself, get dressed by herself, and understand the fundamental business of a home. They made her
urinate over hot bricks in order to cure her of the habit of wetting her bed. It took a good deal of work to
convince her of the inviolability of the marital secret, for Remedios was so confused and at the same time so
amazed at the revelation that she wanted to talk to everybody about the details of the wedding night. It was a
fatiguing effort, but on the date set for the ceremony the child was as adept in the ways of the world as any of her
sisters. Don Apolinar Moscote escorted her by the arm down the street that was decorated with flowers and
wreaths amidst the explosion of rockets and the music of several bands,cheap runescape gold, and she waved with her hand and gave
her thanks with a smile to those who wished her good luck from the windows. Aureliano, dressed in black,
wearing the same patent leather boots with metal fasteners that he would have on a few years later as he faced

“In this town we do not give orders with pieces of paper,?he said without losing his calm. “And so that you
know it once and for all, we don’t need any judge here because there’s nothing that needs judging.?
Facing Don Apolinar Moscote,cheap warhammer gold, still without raising his voice, he gave a detailed account of how they had
founded the village, of how they had distributed the land, opened the roads, and introduced the improvements
that necessity required without having bothered the government and without anyone having bothered them. “We
are so peaceful that none of us has died even of a natural death,?he said. “You can see that we still don’t have any
cemetery.?No once was upset that the government had not helped them. On the contrary, they were happy that up
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until then it had let them grow in peace, and he hoped that it would continue leaving them that way, because they
had not founded a town so that the first upstart who came along would tell them what to do. Don Apolinar had
put on his denim jacket, white like his trousers, without losing at any moment the elegance of his gestures.
“So that if you want to stay here like any other ordinary citizen,final fantasy power leveling, you’re quite welcome,cheap final fantasy xi gil,?Jos?Arcadio Buendaa
concluded. “But if you’ve come to cause disorder by making the people paint their houses blue, you can pick up
your junk and go back where you came from. Because my house is going to be white, white, like a dove.?
Don Apolinar Moscote turned pale. He took a step backward and tightened his jaws as he said with a certain
affliction:
“I must warn you that I’m armed.?
Jos?Arcadio Buendaa did not know exactly when his hands regained the useful strength with which he used to
pull down horses. He grabbed Don Apolinar Moscote by the lapels and lifted him up to the level of his eyes.
“I’m doing this,?he said, “because I would rather carry you around alive and not have to keep carrying you
around dead for the rest of my life.?
In that way he carried him through the middle of the street, suspended by the lapels, until he put him down on
his two feet on the swamp road. A week later he was back with six barefoot and ragged soldiers, armed with
shotguns, and an oxcart in which his wife and seven daughters were traveling. Two other carts arrived later with
the furniture, the baggage, and the household utensils. He settled his family in the Hotel Jacob, while he looked
for a house, and he went back to open his office under the protection of the soldiers. The founders of Macondo,
resolving to expel the invaders, went with their older sons to put themselves at the disposal of Jos?Arcadio
Buendaa. But he was against it, as he explained, because it was not manl y to make trouble for someone in front
of his family, and Don Apolinar had returned with his wife and daughters. So he decided to resolve the situation
in a pleasant way.
Aureliano went with him. About that time he had begun to cultivate the black mustache with waxed tips and
the somewhat stentorian voice that would characterize him in the war. Unarmed, without paying any attention to
the guards,cheap runescape gold, they went into the magistrate’s office. Don Apolinar Moscote did not lose his calm. He introduced
them to two of his daughters who happened to be there: Amparo, sixteen, dark like her mother, and Remedios,
only nine, a pretty little girl with lily-colored skin and green eyes. They were gracious and well-mannered. As