Sublime

Todas las bibliotecas públicas y algunas particulares, como la suya, habían sido purgadas de manuales marxistas, libros anticatólicos y pornográficos (a él le habían decomisado todas sus novelas en francés, por si acaso), además de poemas de Rubén Darío y las historias de Miguel Ángel Asturias y de Vargas Vila.

Colonel Aureliano Buendía did not show any sign of anger, but his spirit only calmed down when his bodyguard had sacked the widow’s house and reduced it to ashes.

the Zoo Plague and, later, AAF or Acquired Aposymbiotic Familiarism.

“I just got a letter from my agent,” I told her. “My agent in New York. He says I sold another one; he doesn’t say where, but he says he’s got one sold. So don’t worry Mrs. Hargraves, don’t you fret, I’ll have it in a day or so.” But she couldn’t believe a liar like me. It wasn’t really a lie; it was a wish, not a lie, and maybe it wasn’t even a wi

But as is so often the case with men who have made it like this, he was arrogant and self-righteous.

didactic,