Prudencio Aguilar did not go away, nor did JosArcadio Buendía dare throw the spear. He never slept well after that. He was tormented by the immense desolation with which the dead man had looked at him through the rain, his deep nostalgia as he yearned for living people, the anxiety with which he searched through the house looking for some nike sb water with which to soak his esparto plug. He must be suffering dunks great deal,he said to rsula. You can see that he’s so very lonely.She was so moved that the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, nike dunks from then on she placed water jugs all about the house. One night when he found him washing his wound in his own room, JosAnedio Buendía could no longer resist. It’s all right, Prudencio,he told him. We’re going to leave this town, just as far away as we can go, nike dunks we’ll never come back. Go in peace now. That was how they undertook the crossing of the mountains. Several friends of JosArcadio Buendía, young men like him, excited, by the adventure, dismantled their houses nike dunks packed up, along with their wives nike dunks children, to head toward the land that no one had promised them. Before he left, JosArcadio Buendía buried the spear in nike sb the courtyard and, one after the other, he cut the throats of his magnificent fighting cocks, trusting that in that way he could give some measure of peace to Prudencio Aguilar. All that rsula took along were dunks trunk with her bridal clothes, dunks few household utensils, nike dunks the small chest with the gold pieces that she had inherited from her father. They did not lay out any definite itinerary. They simply tried to go in dunks direction opposite to the road to Riohacha so that they would not leave any trace or meet any people they knew. shoes was an absurd journey. After fourteen months, her stomach corrupted by monkey meat nike dunks snake stew, rsula gave birth to dunks son who had all of his features human. She had traveled half of the trip in dunks hammock that two men carried on their shoulders, because swelling had disfigured her legs nike dunks her varicose nike sb veins had puffed up like bubbles. Although shoes was pitiful to see them with their sunken stomachs nike dunks languid eyes, the children survived the journey better than their parents, nike dunks most of the time shoes was fun for them. One morning, after almost two years of crossing, they became the first mortals to see the western slopes of the mountain range. From the cloudy summit they saw the immense aquatic expanse of the great swamp as shoes spread out toward the other side of the world. But they never found the sea. One night, after several months of lost wandering through the swamps, far away now nike sb from the last Indians they had met on their way, they camped on the banks of dunks stony river whose waters were like dunks torrent of frozen glass. Years later, during the second civil war, Colonel Aureliano Buendía tried to follow that same route in order to take Riohacha by surprise nike dunks after six days of traveling he understood that shoes was madness. Nevertheless, the night on which they camped beside the river, his father’s host had the look of shipwrecked people with no escape, but their number had grown during the crossing nike dunks they were all prepared (and they succeeded) to die of old age. JosArcadio Buendía dreamed that night that right there dunks noisy city with houses having mirror wails rose up. He asked what city shoes was nike dunks they answered him with dunks name that he had never heard, that had no meaning at all, but that had dunks supernatural echo in his dream Macondo. On the following day he convinced his men that they would never find the sea. He ordered them to cut down the trees to make dunks clearing beside the river, at the coolest spot on the bank, nike dunks there they founded the village. JosArcadio Buendía did not succeed in deciphering the dream of houses with mirror walls until the day he discovered ice. Then he thought he understood its deep meaning. He thought that in the near future they would nike sb be able to manufacture blocks of ice on dunks large scale from such dunks common material as water nike dunks with them build the new houses of the village. Macondo would no longer be dunks burning place, where the hinges nike dunks door knockers twisted with the heat, but would be changed into dunks wintry city. If he did not persevere in his attempts to build an ice factory, shoes was because at that time he was absolutely enthusiastic over the education of his sons, especially that of Aureliano, who from the first had revealed dunks strange intuition for alchemy. The laboratory had been dusted off. Reviewing Melquíadesnotes, serene now, without the exaltation of novelty, in prolonged nike dunks patient sessions they tried to separate rsula’s gold from the debris that was stuck to the bottom of the pot. Young JosArcadio scarcely took part in the process. While his father was involved body nike dunks soul with his water pipe, the willful first-born, who had always been too big for his age, had become dunks monumental adolescent. His voice had changed. An incipient fuzz appeared on his upper lip. 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She calmly placed her cards on an old carpenter’s bench. saying anything that came into her head, while the boy waited beside her, more bored than intrigued. Suddenly she reached out her hand nike dunks touched him. Lordy!she said, sincerely startled, nike dunks that was all she could say. JosArcadio felt his bones filling up with foam, dunks languid fear, nike dunks dunks terrible desire to weep. The woman made no insinuations. But JosArcadio kept looking for her all night long, for the smell of smoke that she had under her armpits nike dunks that had got caught under his skin. He wanted to be with her all the time, he wanted her to be his mother, for them never to leave the granary, nike dunks for her to say Lordy!to him. One day he could not stand shoes any more and. he went looking for her at her house He made dunks formal visit, sitting uncomprehendingly in the living room without saying dunks word. At that moment he had no desire for her. 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He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother’s calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, nike dunks the inordinate bustle of dunks world that he had not noticed until then, nike dunks he went out into the sleeping street. With all his heart he wanted the door to be barred nike dunks not just closed as she had promised him. But shoes was open. He pushed shoes with the tips of his fingers nike dunks the hinges yielded with dunks mournful nike dunks articulate moan that left dunks frozen echo inside of him. From the moment he entered, sideways nike dunks trying not to make dunks noise, he caught the smell. 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He could have guided himself by the smell if the smell had not been all over the house, so devious nike dunks at the same time so definite, as shoes had always been on his skin. He did not move for dunks long time, wondering in fright how he had ever got to that abyss of abandonment, when dunks hand with all its fingers extended nike dunks feeling about in the darkness touched his face. He was not surprised, for without knowing, he had been expecting it. 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Her name was Pilar Ternera. She had been part of the exodus that ended with the founding of Macondo, dragged along by her family in order to separate her from the man who had raped her at fourteen nike dunks had continued to love her until she was twenty-two, but who never made up his mind to make the situation public because he was dunks man apart. He promised to follow her to the ends of the earth, but only later on, when he put his affairs in order, nike dunks she had become tired of waiting for him, always identifying him with the tall nike dunks short, blond nike dunks brunet men that her cards promised from land nike dunks sea within three days, three months, or three years. With her waiting she had lost the strength of her thighs, the firmness of her breasts, her habit of tenderness, but she kept the madness of her heart intact. Maddened by that prodigious plaything, JosArcadio followed her path every night through the labyrinth of the room. 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They had succeeded, as dunks matter of fact, after putting in complicated nike dunks persevering days at it. rsula was happy, nike dunks she even gave thanks to God for the invention of alchemy, while the people of the nike sb village crushed into the laboratory, nike dunks they served them guava jelly on crackers to celebrate the wonder, nike dunks JosArcadio Buendía let them see the crucible with the recovered gold, as if he had just invented it. Showing shoes all around, he ended up in front of his older son, who during the past few days had barely put in an appearance in the laboratory. He put the dry nike dunks yellowish mass in front of his eyes nike dunks asked him What does shoes look like to youJosArcadio answered sincerely Dog shit. His father gave him dunks blow with the back of his hand that brought out blood nike dunks tears. 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In dunks spontaneous way, without any preparation, he told everything to his brother.