Many
years later, facing the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon in which his father took him to know the ice. Macondo was then a
village of twenty cañabrava and mud houses built on the banks of a river of clear water that are precipitated by a bed of polished stones, and huge white as prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and had to mention that señalarías the finger. Every year, for the month of March, a family of
gypsies desarrapados planted his tent near the village, and with a big fuss wheezing and timbales were devoted to new inventions. First brought the magnet. A Gypsy corpulent, bearded ranger and hands sparrow, which was submitted under the name of Melquiades, truculenta made a public demonstration of what he himself called the eighth wonder of the sages alchemists of Macedonia. It was from
house to house dragging two metal
ingots, and the whole world is frightened to see that the cauldrons, pailas, pliers and burners are falling on your site, and timber crujían by the desperation of the nails and bolts trying desenclavarse of, and even lost long appeared more where they had sought, and was dragged into desbandada turbulent behind the iron bars of Melquiades
magic. "Things have a life of its own-proclaimed Gypsy with rough accent, is all about awaken the bore." Jose Arcadio Buendía, whose desaforada imagination always went farther than the ingenuity of nature, and even beyond the miracle and magic, thought that it was possible to use that invention useless to unravel the golden land. Melquiades, who was an honest man, he cautioned: "For it is not." Jose Arcadio Buendía But at that time did not believe in the honesty of gypsies, and that changed his mule and a batch of goats by the two ingots imantados. Ursula Iguarán, his wife, which included those animals to expand the desmedrado household assets, failed to dissuade him. "Very soon must sobrarnos gold for stoning the house," replied her husband. For several months endeavoured to demonstrate the wisdom of their guesses. Explored span to span the region, including the bottom of the river, dragging the two ingots of iron and reciting aloud the spell of Melquiades. The only thing that managed to unearth was an armor fifteenth-century with all its parts welded by a rubble oxide, whose interior was hollow resonance of a huge calabazo full of stones. When Jose Arcadio Buendía and four men of his expedition succeeded in disrupting the armor, a skeleton found within calcified wearing hung on the neck of a copper reliquary with a curl of women. In March returned Gypsies. This time carrying a telescope and a microscope the size of a drum, which exhibited the latest discovery of the Jews of Amsterdam. Sentaron a Gypsy on the edge of the village and installed the telescope at the entrance to the tent. By paying five real people peeked to the scope and saw the Gypsy at your fingertips. "Science has eliminated the gap," proclaimed Melquiades. "Soon, the man can see what is happening anywhere in the ground without moving from your home." An ardent noon did an amazing demonstration with the magnifying glass giant: made a pile of dry grass in the middle of the street and he set fire by concentrating the sun''s rays. Jose Arcadio Buendía, which still did not quite consolation for the failure of their magnets.
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