Day One Hundred and Twenty-Two

8/2

The Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

ISBN: 978-0-06-088328-7

Suggested By: Mecca Willman

Where: In Bed

When: 10-10:30

Music: None

Company: The Family

Pages: 116-171 (55)

The Lead In: So glad to be home, so happy to read in the comfort of my bed, nice ending to a rough patch of days.

The 411 on the 55: The patriarch of the family, Jose Arcadio, has gone crazy and to control him they tie him to a tree in the front yard, where he murmurs things in Latin. One of the girls has a dream one night that he will die soon and is cautioned to care for him until his passing. As they prepare a place within the house, they attempt to bring him in, but, while standing there for days and days, he learns how to make his body heavier until it takes 7 men to carry him inside. There is something wonderful about that, I am not sure.

Line of the Day: “The smell of tender mushrooms, of wood-flower fungus, of old and concentrated outdoors impregnated the air of the bedroom as it was breathed by the colossal old man weatherbeaten by the sun and the rain.” pg 139

Fact on the Fiction: “Believed by many to be one of the world’s greatest writers, Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian-born author and journalist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and a pioneer of the Latin American “Boom.” Affectionately known as “Gabo” to millions of readers, he first won international fame with his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, a defining classic of twentieth century literature.” The Modern World