the lead cover and saw Don Fernando, dressed in black and with a crucifix on his chest, his skin broken out in
pestilential sores and cooking slowly in a frothy stew with bubbles like live pearls.
A short time after the birth of their daughter, the unexpected jubilee for Colonel Aureliano, Buendaa, ordered
by the government to celebrate another anniversary of the Treaty of Neerlandia,wow gold, was announced. It was a
decision so out of line with official policy that the colonel spoke out violently against it and rejected the homage.
“It’s the first time I’ve ever heard of the word ‘jubilee,??he said. “But whatever it means, it has to be a trick.?The
small goldsmith shop was filled with emissaries. Much older and more solemn, the lawyers in dark suits who in
other days had flapped about the colonel like crows had returned. When he saw them appear the same as the
other time, when they came to put a stop to the war,cheap rohan crone, he could not bear the cynicism of their praise. He ordered
them to leave him in peace, insisting that he was not a hero of the nation as they said but an artisan without
memories whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes. What made
him most indignant was the word that the president of the republic himself planned to be present at the
ceremonies in Macondo in order to decorate him with the Order of Merit. Colonel Aureliano, Buendaa had him
told, word for word, that he was eagerly awaiting that tardy but deserved occasion in order to take a shot at him,
not as payment for the arbitrary acts and anachronisms of his regime, but for his lack of respect for an old man
who had not done anyone any harm. Such was the vehemence with which he made the threat that the president of
the republic canceled his trip at the last moment and sent the decoration with a personal representative. Colonel
Gerineldo Mrquez, besieged by pressures of all kinds,buy rs money, left his bed of a paralytic in order to persuade his former
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companion in arms. When the latter saw the rocking chair carried by four men appear and saw the friend who
had shared his victories and defeats since youth sitting in it among some large pillows, he did not have a single
doubt but that he was making that effort in order to express his solidarity. But when he discovered the real
motive for his visit he had them take him out of the workshop.
“Now I’m convinced too late,?he told him, “that I would have done you a great favor if I’d let them shoot
So the jubilee was celebrated without the attendance of any members of the family. Chance had it that it also
coincided with carnival week, but no one could get the stubborn idea out of Colonel Aureliano Buendaa’s head
that the coincidence had been foreseen by the government in order to heighten the cruelty of the mockery. From
his lonely workshop he could hear the martial music, the artillery salutes, the tolling of the Te Deum, and a few
phrases of the speeches delivered in front of the house as they named the street after him. His eyes grew moist
with indignation, with angry impotence, and for the first time since his defeat it pained him not to have the
strength of youth so that he could begin a bloody war that would wipe out the last vestiges of the Conservative
regi me. The echoes of the homage had not died down when 2rsula knocked at the workshop door.
“Don’t bother me,?he said. “I’m busy.?
“Open up,runescape power leveling,?2rsula insisted in a normal voice. “This has nothing to do with the celebration.?
Then Colonel Aureliano Buendaa took down the bar and saw at the door seventeen men of the most varied
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more humane. The other letter was for his wife, who lived in Liberal territory, and he left it with a plea to see that
it reached its destination. From then on, even in the bloodiest periods of the war, the two commanders would
arrange truces to exchange prisoners. They were pauses with a certain festive atmosphere, which General
Moncada took advantage of to teach Colonel Aureliano Buendaa how to play chess. They became great friends.
They even came to think about the possibility of coordinating the popular elements of both parties,buy rs money, doing away
with the influence of the military men and professional politicians, and setting up a humanitarian regime that
would take the best from each doctrine. When the war was over, while Colonel Aureliano, Buendaa was sneaking
about through the narrow trails of permanent sub. version, General Moncada was named magistrate of Macondo.
He wore civilian clothes, replaced the soldiers with unarmed policemen, enforced the amnesty laws, and helped a
few families of Liberals who had been killed in the war. He succeeded in having Macondo raised to the status of
a municipality and he was therefore its first mayor, and he created an atmosphere of confidence that made people
think of the war as an absurd nightmare of the past. Father Nicanor, consumed by hepatic fever, was replaced by
Father Coronel, whom they called “The Pup,?a veteran of the first federalist war. Bruno Crespi, who was married
to Amparo Mos. cote, and whose shop of toys and musical instruments continued to prosper, built a theater which
Spanish companies included in their Itineraries. It was a vast open-air hall with wooden benches, a velvet curtain
with Greek masks, and three box offices in the shape of lions?heads, through whose mouths the tickets were
sold. It was also about that time that the school was rebuilt. It was put under the charge of Don Melchor
Escalona, an old teacher brought from the swamp, who made his lazy students walk on their knees in the lime-
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coated courtyard and made the students who talked in class eat hot chili with the approval of their parents.
Aureliano Segundo and Jos?Arcadio Segundo,cheap daoc gold, the willful twins of Santa Sofaa de la Piedad, were the first to sit
in the classroom, with their slates, their chalk, and their aluminum jugs with their names on them. Remedios,
who inherited her mother’s pure beauty, began to be known as Remedios the Beauty. In spite of time, of the
superimposed Periods of mourning, and her accumulated afflictions,buy world of warcraft gold, 2rsula resisted growing old. Aided by Santa
Sofaa de la Piedad, she gave a new drive to her pastry business and in a few years not only recovered the fortune
that her son had spent in the war, but she once more stuffed with pure gold the gourds buried in the bedroom.
“As long as God gives me life,?she would say, “there will always be money in this madhouse.?That was how
things were when Aureliano Jos?deserted the federal troops in Nicaragua, signed on as a crewman on a German
ship, and appeared in the kitchen of the house, sturdy as a horse, as dark and long-haired as an Indian, and with a
secret determination to marry Amaranta.
When Amaranta,cheap runescape money, saw him come in, even though he said nothing she knew immediately why he had come
back. At the table they did not dare look each other in the face. But two weeks after his return, in the presence of
2rsula, he set his eyes on hers and said to her, “I always thought a lot about you.?Amaranta avoided him. She
guarded against chance meetings. She tried not to become separated from Remedios the Beauty. She was
ashamed of the blush that covered her cheeks on the day her nephew asked her how long she intended wearing
the black bandage on her hand, for she interpreted it as an allusion to her virginity. When he arrived, she barred
COLONEL AURELIANO BUENDaA organized thirty-two armed uprisings and he lost them all. He had
seventeen male children by seventeen different women and they were exterminated one after the other on a
single night before the oldest one had reached the age of thirty-five. He survived fourteen attempts on his life,
seventy-three ambushes,rs gold, and a firing squad. He lived through a dose of strychnine in his coffee that was enough
to kill a horse. He refused the Order of Merit, which the President of the Republic awarded him. He rose to be
Commander in Chief of the revolutionary forces, with jurisdiction and command from one border to the other,
and the man most feared by the government, but he never let himself be photographed. He declined the lifetime
pension offered him after the war and until old age he made his living from the little gold fishes that he
manufactured in his workshop in Macondo. Although he always fought at the head of his men, the only wound
that he received was the one he gave himself after signing the Treaty of Neerlandia, which put an end to almost
twenty years of civil war. He shot himself in the chest with a pistol and the bullet came out through his back
without damaging any vital organ. The only thing left of all that was a street that bore his name in Macondo. And
yet, as he declared a few years before he died of old age, he had not expected any of that on the dawn he left with
his twenty-one men to join the forces of General Victorio Medina.
“We leave Macondo in your care.?was all that he said to Arcadio before leaving. “We leave it to you in good
shape,cheap rs money, try to have it in better shape when we return.?
Arcadio gave a very personal interpretation to the instructions. He invented a uniform with the braid and
epaulets of a marshal, inspired by the prints in one of Melquaades?books, and around his waist he buckled the
saber with gold tassels that had belonged to the executed captain. He set up the two artillery pieces at the
entrance to town, put uniforms on his former pupils, who had been amused by his fiery proclamations,buy wow gold, and let
them wander through the streets armed in order to give outsiders an impression of invulnerability. It was a
double-edged deception, for the government did not dare attack the place for ten months, but when it did it
unleashed such a large force against it that resistance was liquidated in a half hour. From the first day of his rule
Arcadio revealed his predilection for decrees. He would read as many as four a day in order to decree and
institute everything that came into his head. He imposed obligatory military service for men over eighteen,
declared to be public property any animals walking the streets after six in the evening, and made men who were
overage wear red armbands. He sequestered Father Nicanor in the parish house under pain of execution and
prohibited him from saying mass or ringing the bells unless it was for a Liberal victory. In order that no one
would doubt the severity of his aims, he ordered a firing squad organized in the square and had it shoot at a
scarecrow. At first no one took him seriously. They were, after all, schoolchildren playing at being grown-ups.
But one night, when Arcadio went into Catarino’s store, the trumpeter in the group greeted him with a fanfare
that made the customers laugh and Arcadio had him shot for disrespect for the authorities. People who protested
were put on bread and water with their ankles in a set of stocks that he had set up in a schoolroom. “You
murderer!?2rsula would shout at him every time she learned of some new arbitrary act. “When Aureliano finds
out he’s going to shoot you and I’ll be the first one to be glad.?But it was of no use. Arcadio continued tightening
the tourniquet with unnecessary rigor until he became the cruelest ruler that Macondo had ever known. “Now let
them suffer the difference,?Don Apolinar Moscote said on one occasion. “This is the Liberal paradise.?Arcadio
found out about it. At the head of a patrol he assaulted the house, destroyed the furniture, flogged the daughters,buy rs money,
and dragged out Don Apolinar Moscote. When 2rsula burst into the courtyard of headquarters, after having gone
through the town shouting shame and brandishing with rage a pitch-covered whip, Arcadio himself was
drive. He recommended discretion and prudence to him. Deaf to his calm reasoning, to his sense of reality,ao credits,
Arcadio reproached him in public for his weakness of character. Aureliano waited. Finally, in the beginning of
December, 2rsula burst into the workshop all upset.
“War’s broken out!?
War, in fact, had broken out three months before. Martial law was in effect in the whole country. The only one
who knew it immediatel y was Don Apolinar Moscote, but he did not give the news even to his wife while the
army platoon that was to occupy the town by surprise was on its way. They entered noiselessly before dawn, with
two pieces of light artillery drawn by mules, and they set up their headquarters in the school. A 6 P.M. curfew
was established. A more drastic search than the previous one was undertaken,cheap ao credits, house by house, and this time they
even took farm implements. They dragged out Dr. Noguera, tied him to a tree in the square, and shot him without
any due process of law. Father Nicanor tried to impress the military authorities with the miracle of levitation and
had his head split open by the butt of a soldier’s rifle. The Liberal exaltation had been extinguished into a silent
terror. Aureliano, pale, mysterious, continued playing dominoes with his father-in-law. He understood that in
spite of his present title of civil and military leader of the town, Don Apolinar Moscote was once more a
figurehead. The decisions were made by the army captain, who each morning collected an extraordinary levy for
the defense of public order. Four soldiers under his command snatched a woman who had been bitten by a mad
dog from her family and killed her with their rifle butts. One Sunday, two weeks after the occupation, Aureliano
entered Gerineldo Mrquez’s house and with his usual terseness asked for a mug of coffee without sugar. When
the two of them were alone in the kitchen,cheap runescape gold, Aureliano gave his voice an authority that had never been heard
before. “Get the boys ready,?he said. “We’re going to war.?Gerineldo Mrquez did not believe him.
“With what weapons??he asked.
“With theirs,?Aureliano replied.
Tuesday at midnight in a mad operation, twenty-one men under the age of thirty commanded by Aureliano
Buendaa, armed with table knives and sharpened tools, took the garrison by surprise, seized the weapons, and in
the courtyard executed the captain and the four soldiers who had killed the woman.
That same night, while the sound of the firing squad could be heard, Arcadio was named civil and military
leader of the town. The married rebels barely had time to take leave of their wives, whom they left to their our
devices. They left at dawn, cheered by the people who had been liberated from the terror, to join the forces of the
revolutionary general Victorio Medina, who, according to the latest reports, was on his way to Manaure. Before
leaving,buy rs money, Aureliano brought Don Apolinar Moscote out of a closet. “Rest easy, father-in-law,?he told him. “The
new government guarantees on its word of honor your personal safety and that of your family.?Don Apolinar
Moscote had trouble identifying that conspirator in high boots and with a rifle slung over his shoulder with the
person he had played dominoes with until nine in the evening.
“This is madness, Aurelito,?he exclaimed.
“Not madness,?Aureliano said. “War. And don’t call me Aurelito any more. Now I’m Colonel Aureliano
Buendaa.?
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“Come now,anarchy online power leveling, Aurelito,?he said, “if you were a Liberal, even though you’re my son-in-law, you wouldn’t have
seen the switching of the ballots.?
What really caused indignation in the town was. not the results of the elections but the fact that the soldiers
had not returned the weapons. A group of women spoke with Aureliano so that he could obtain the return of their
kitchen knives from his father-in-law. Don Apolinar Moscote explained to him, in strictest confidence, that the
soldiers had taken the weapons off as proof that the Liberals were preparing for war. The cynicism of the remark
alarmed him. He said nothing, but on a certain night when Gerineldo Mrquez and Magnafico Visbal were
speaking with some other friends about the incident of the knives, they asked him if he was a Liberal or a
Conservative. Aureliano did not hesitate.
“If I have to be something I’ll be a Liberal,?he said, “because the Conservatives are tricky.?
On the following day, at the urging of his friends, he went to see Dr. Alirio Noguera to be treated for a
supposed pain in his liver. He did not even understand the meaning of the subterfuge. Dr. Alirio Noguera had
arrived in Macondo a few years before with a medicine chest of tasteless pills and a medical motto that
convinced no one: One nail draws another. In reality he was a charlatan. Behind his innocent fa ade of a doctor
without prestige there was hidden a terrorist who with his short legged boots covered the scars that five years in
the stocks had left on his legs. Taken prisoner during the first federalist adventure, he managed to escape to
Cura ao disguised in the garment he detested most in this world: a cassock. At the end of a prolonged exile,
stirred up by the exciting news that exiles from all over the Caribbean brought to Cura ao, he set out in a
smuggler’s schooner and appeared in Riohacha with the bottles of pills that were nothing but refined sugar and a
diploma from the University of Leipzig that he had forged himself. He wept with disappointment. The federalist
fervor,lotro gold, which the exiles had pictured as a powder keg about to explode, had dissolved into a vague electoral
illusion. Embittered by failure, yearning for a safe place where he could await old age, the false homeopath took
refuge in Macondo. In the narrow bottle-crowded room that he rented on one side of the square, he lived several
years off the hopelessly ill who, after having tried everything,anarchy online power leveling, consoled themselves with sugar pills. His instincts
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of an agitator remained dormant as long as Don Apolinar Moscote was a figurehead. He passed the time
remembering and fighting against asthma. The approach of the elections was the thread that led him once more
to the skein of subversion. He made contact with the young people in the town,buy rs money, who lacked political knowledge,
and he embarked on a stealthy campaign of instigation. The numerous red ballots that appeared is the box and
that were attributed by Don Apolinar Moscote to the curiosity that came from youth were part of his plan: he
made his disciples vote in order to show them that elections were a farce. “The only effective thing,?he would
say, “is violence.?The majority of Aureliano’s friends were enthusiastic over the idea of liquidating the
Conservative establishment, but no one had dared include him in the plans, not only because of his ties with the
magistrate, but because of his solitary and elusive character. It was known, furthermore, that he had voted blue at
his father-in-law’s direction. So it was a simple matter of chance that he revealed his political sentiments, and it
the tormenting hammering and the constant noise of wooden lathings ceased in a silence that was startled at the
order and neatness of the music. They all ran to the parlor. Jos?Arcadio Buendaa was as if struck by lightning, not
because of the beauty of the melody, but because of the automatic working of the keys of the pianola,lineage 2 adena, and he set
up Melquaades?camera with the hope of getting a daguerreotype of the invisible player. That day the Italian had
lunch with them. Rebeca and Amaranta, serving the table, were intimidated by the way in which the angelic man
with pale and ringless hands manipulated the utensils. In the living room, next to the parlor, Pietro Crespi taught
them how to dance. He showed them the steps without touching them, keeping time with a metronome, under the
friendly eye of 2rsula, who did not leave the room for a moment while her daughters had their lesson. Pietro
Crespi wore special pants on those days, very elastic and tight, and dancing slippers, “You don’t have to worry so
much,?Jos?Arcadio Buendaa told her. “The man’s a fairy.?But she did not leave off her vigilance until the
apprenticeship was over and the Italian left Macondo. Then they began to organize the party. 2rsula drew up a
strict guest list, in which the only ones invited were the descendants of the founders, except for the family of
Pilar Ternera, who by then had had two more children by unknown fathers. It was truly a high-class list, except
that it was determined by feelings of friendship, for those favored were not only the oldest friends of Jos?Arcadio
Buendaa’s house since before they undertook the exodus and the founding of Macondo, but also their sons and
grandsons, who were the constant companions of Aureliano and Arcadio since infancy, and their daughters,buy rs money, who
were the only ones who visited the house to embroider with Rebeca and Amaranta. Don Apolinar Moscote,guild wars power leveling, the
benevolent ruler whose activity had been reduced to the maintenance from his scanty resources of two policemen
armed with wooden clubs, was a figurehead. In older to support the household expenses his daughters had
opened a sewing shop, where they made felt flowers as well as guava delicacies, and wrote love notes to order.
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But in spite of being modest and hard-working, the most beautiful girls in Iowa, and the most skilled at the new
dances, they did not manage to be considered for the party.
While 2rsula and the girls unpacked furniture, polished silverware, and hung pictures of maidens in boats full
of roses, which gave a breath of new life to the naked areas that the masons had built, Jos?Arcadio Buendaa
stopped his pursuit of the image of God, convinced of His nonexistence, and he took the pianola apart in order to
decipher its magical secret. Two days before the party, swamped in a shower of leftover keys and hammers,
bungling in the midst of a mix-up of strings that would unroll in one direction and roll up again in the other, he
succeeded in a fashion in putting the instrument back together. There had never been as many surprises and as
much dashing about as in those days, but the new pitch lamps were lighted on the designated day and hour. The
house was opened, still smelling of resin and damp whitewash, and the children and grandchildren of the
founders saw the porch with ferns and begonias, the quiet rooms, the garden saturated with the fragrance of the
roses,guild wars power leveling, and they gathered together in the parlor, facing the unknown invention that had been covered with a white
sheet. Those who were familiar with the piano, popular in other towns in the swamp, felt a little disheartened, but
more bitter was 2rsula’s disappointment when she put in the first roll so that Amaranta and Rebeca could begin
hat as he read with compassionate attention the signs pasted to the walls. He greeted him with a broad show of
affection, afraid that he had known him at another time and that he did not remember him now. But the visitor
was aware of his falseness, He felt himself forgotten, not with the irremediable forgetfulness of the heart, but
with a different kind of forgetfulness, which was more cruel and irrevocable and which he knew very well
because it was the forgetfulness of death. Then he understood. He opened the suitcase crammed with
indecipherable objects and from among then he took out a little case with many flasks. He gave Jos?Arcadio
Buendaa a drink of a gentle color and the light went on in his memory. His eyes became moist from weeping
even before he noticed himself in an absurd living room where objects were labeled and before he was ashamed
of the solemn nonsense written on the walls, and even before he recognized the newcomer with a dazzling glow
of joy. It was Melquaades.
While Macondo was celebrating the recovery of its memory, Jos?Arcadio Buendaa and Melquaades dusted off
their old friendship. The gypsy was inclined to stay in the town. He really had been through death, but he had
returned because he could not bear the solitude. Repudiated by his tribe, having lost all of his supernatural
faculties because of his faithfulness to life,age of conan gold, he decided to take refuge in that corner of the world which had still
not been discovered by death, dedicated to the operation of a daguerreotype laboratory. Jos?Arcadio Buendaa had
never heard of that invention. But when he saw himself and his whole family fastened onto a sheet of iridescent
metal for an eternity, he was mute with stupefaction. That was the date of the oxidized daguerreotype in which
Jos?Arcadio Buendaa appeared with his bristly and graying hair, his card board collar attached to his shirt by a
copper button, and an expression of startled solemnity, whom 2rsula described, dying with laughter,eve online isk, as a
“frightened general.?Jos?Arcadio Buendaa was, in fact, frightened on that dear December morning when the
daguerreotype was made, for he was thinking that people were slowly wearing away while his image would
endure an a metallic plaque. Through a curious reversal of custom,buy rs money, it was 2rsula who got that idea out of his
head, as it was also she who forgot her ancient bitterness and decided that Melquaades would stay on in the
house, although she never permitted them to make a daguerreotype of her because (according to her very words)
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she did not want to survive as a laughingstock for her grandchildren. That morning she dressed the children in
their best clothes, powdered their faces,runescape power leveling, and gave a spoonful of marrow syrup to each one so that they would all
remain absolutely motionless during the nearly two minutes in front of Melquaades fantastic camera. In the
family daguerreotype, the only one that ever existed, Aureliano appeared dressed in black velvet between
Amaranta and Rebeca. He had the same languor and the same clairvoyant look that he would have years later as
he faced the firing squad. But he still had not sensed the premonition of his fate. He was an expert silversmith,
praised all over the swampland for the delicacy of his work. In the workshop, which he shared with Melquaades?
mad laboratory, he could barely be heard breathing. He seemed to be taking refuge in some other time, while his
father and the gypsy with shouts interpreted the predictions of Nostradamus amidst a noise of flasks and trays
and the disaster of spilled acids and silver bromide that was lost in the twists and turns it gave at every instant.
That dedication to his work, the good judgment with which he directed his attention, had allowed Aureliano to