One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Marquez, Gabriel Garcia]
Format: epub
Tags: Read, 110 best books: Literary Fiction
ISBN: 9780141184999
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1972-10-13T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13 IN THE BEWILDERMENT of her last years, �sula had had very little free time to attend to the papal education of Jos�rcadio, and the time came for him to get ready to leave for the seminary right away. Meme, his sister, dividing her time between Fernanda�s rigidity and Amaranta�s bitterness, at almost the same moment reached the age set for her to be sent to the nuns� school, where they would make a virtuoso on the clavichord of her. �sula felt tormented by grave doubts concerning the effectiveness of the methods with which she had molded the spirit of the languid apprentice Supreme Pontiff, but she did not put the blame on her staggering old age or the dark clouds that barely permitted her to make out the shape of things, but on something that she herself could not really define and that she conceived confusedly as a progressive breakdown of time. �The years nowadays don�t pass the way the old ones used to,� she would say, feeling that everyday reality was slipping through her hands. In the past, she thought, children took a long time to grow up. All one had to do was remember all the time needed for Jos�rcadio, the elder, to go away with the gypsies and all that happened before he came back painted like a snake and talking like an astronomer, and the things that happened in the house before Amaranta and Arcadio forgot the language of the Indians and learned Spanish. One had to see only the days of sun and dew that poor Jos�rcadio Buend�went through under the chestnut tree and all the time weeded to mourn his death before they brought in a dying Colonel Aureliano Buend� who after so much war and so much suffering from it was still not fifty years of age. In other times, after spending the whole day making candy animals, she had more than enough time for the children, to see from the whites of their eyes that they needed a dose of castor oil. Now, however, when she had nothing to do and would go about with Jos�rcadio riding on her hip from dawn to dusk, this bad kind of time compelled her to leave things half done. The truth was that �sula resisted growing old even when she had already lost count of her age and she was a bother on all sides as she tried to meddle in everything and as she annoyed strangers with her questions as to whether they had left a plaster Saint Joseph to be kept until the rains were over during the days of the war. No one knew exactly when she had begun to lose her sight. Even in her later years, when she could no longer get out of bed, it seemed that she was simply defeated by decrepitude, but no one discovered that she was blind. She had noticed it before the birth of Jos�rcadio. At first she thought it was a

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