FERMINA DAZA could not    ter, in-spired by blind rage, ed by Florentino Ariza as a love letter. S into it all t     unjust vilifica-tions, o    of ty of t    in a bitter exorcism ttempting to e to terms uatioo be o recover all t so give up in ury of servitude t less made    y. S in a strange    ary and t purpose, asking    behind.

        S avoid a profound feeling of rancor toer op in tever sten to tell    every moment tless ordinary questions o mind t old    s imagi amputees suffer pains, cramps, itc is no lo is     him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

        m as a    opening -able position so t sinue sleeping, and t        t aime in years. truck    table, not because s alone,    sing ed. It    until er Ofelia came from Ne s at a table again to eat, but instead of table set up in til t take a regular meal.

        Sy    s a a little of everyt plag aanding in front of tove, talking to t fortable, t along . Still, no matter ried, s elude t, ter    and rigo grieve for ed to do everyt to o empty t    him.

        It ual of eradication. o take    ser ake some furniture and tless objects t s    rigique aus i all amused to learn t t on i-quarians. to t stupefa of ts, to visit    time, s in a vat lot be reminded    expensive and elegant cloty si tury, t ss t resembled raits, ta rog c time to die, innumerable objects so tied to    by no of ity.

        S    t, in tainty t    only for reasons of en expressed o be cremated and not s a permit it, of course: o broa case, and egorio. It    permit tence of crematoriums in our cemeteries, not even fe of building t o a Juvenal Urbino. Fermina Daza did not fet error, and even in t o order ter to leave a c could e into tion to him.

        In a, t ant to t seemed to be to time. Eveion of io miss not only t also o go on    died. S o be difficult, but it would bee less and less so.

        At t, so see t lig as it greom in    give ’s peace.    tiable pom enderness after s teful pom ioner’s frock coat and     , inence urbed    s impossible not to t ion of    teen, s s bered in    could only groime. Sed on t red, s it in tom    of    and frig sural o be ed ill perfuming t believe t    t step in God knoer plan for revenge.

        ent memory of    er ts by a simple act of    turned, and s tet ro i for remembering algia, so recall for t time t unreal love. Sried to remember just tle park rees, and t still existed as it rees    of yelloatue of tated    of anot es or reasons to justify ood on an ostentatious pedestal in rical trols for trict. o total ruin at t. It    easy for o imagine Florentino Ariza as o believe t taciturn boy, so vulnerable in ten old    of ion for uation, or test respect for    t still made it difficult for o breathe.

        Cousin o visit a s urned from to recuperate from tune of Miss Lynd tented, s son ible be endless algia for time . On    visit, algic ted by to add eveer poignancy to t rait of taken by tograpernoon t a young Juvenal Urbino o a    ts of dise: young aiful as they would never be again.

        For     to speak of Florentino Ariza, because sified e     telegram, and s ttle bird o oblivion. For , Fermina en seen    speaking to    imagi    love. S er s anyone of any signifi ty. It     married because of s, but stention to t because stention to rumors, and in part because suen rao    Florentino Ariza    in ic attire and ions, and t io be so enigmatic after making acular and    ime: a s erated.

        s er just after urn from Flores de María, se occurred in . S surprised t    t.    did surprise     est self-assurance, and it did not occur to    per roubling explosion of Miss Lynce life. From ty years, se eyes. On t of t not only seemed reasonable for o be t sood it as tural end of rancor: an act of fiving and fetting. t eration of a love t for ed, at an age hing more from life.

        tal rage of t sact after tion of    gre. Even o appease    inexorably being taken over by tino Ariza. And so s about    ing to, and t about    about il it    ain it. t do e Florentino Ariza a letter sisting of tional pages so full of insults and base provocations t it brougion of sciously itting t act of her long life.

        tino Ariza as    erated o Fermina Daza reets t ated by ternoon flood, asking errer    killed after ed its attacks for more tury. ty ate of emergency be-cause of t rains. In s to salvage ino Ariza    everyone’s calamity o do    tars of t in tino Ariza reized t tears. A song t in some    nigo do h.

        ránsito Ariza t avoid it: rop    t in tory. o make a great effort not to fall into t till smelling of tantrums.

        At ty less ready to provide    t t any ances. It    be t time    eland of s, but    soo intelligent, and t too mue g to    tell er a good deal of t as ed city, it occurred to    ter tre, t in t tury, and if topped meeting it o see ude. As soon as    of ino Ariza returo treet of t ttles of port and a jar of pickles in a s to visit    even knowing if sill in her old house, if she was alone, or if she was alive.

        Prudencia Pitre    fotten c to identify    till young alt any questions. treet o see    in full lig sreetlamp on tal frame of ill on his hands.

        “Sanctuary for a poor orphan,” he said.

        It o say, just to say some-t    time    s    in a moment,    life    t met.

        “You look as if yoing to a funeral,” she said.

        It rue. S tire city,    td most sumptu-ous funeral procession t a by tillery t made tremble, by t pause siies, trappings, torinon, and at torias t kept to carry funeral re’s baly, a little after midday, tampede.

        “ an absurd o die,” she said.

        “Deat e.”

        ted on terrace, fag t t took up    ts of ts aloorm. t and ate pickles on slices of try bread t Prudencia Pitre cut from a loaf in ty niger s a    o Ariza     a time o be ablisions han would have seemed possible.

        Alted at it, so to marry    it    be easy to sub-mit to ure appearance of age, or o ask for everyt all iurn, but despite all tter pany because no ot no ot t beyond t it al interfere ermination to remain free for Fermina Daza.    lasted many years, even after re to marry a salesman    ter and four sons, one of wino Ariza’s.

        talked, not ed about tomed to ss of to lose in t never ino Ariza still    cauger tion, and told o take off , , rousers, to take off everyt ter all, tter    sime ago s    so allo    ao see her undressed.

        Florentino Ariza, in a state of agitation t    calm , talked at lengt t: t, t, for e to find t t     ligtempted an i approac seemed casual: “ o you, just as you are, a widow of ye?” Surn:

        “Are you speaking of the idow Urbino?”

        Florentino Ariza al re more t tions more t tions terror because of    peace.” to say o say, because s     ter so many years of not seeing    to drink port a try bread    only “ino Ariza .

        “For once you are h singing.”

        “Let’s sing, then,” she said.

        And so sing, in a very good voice, t    live    you. t o play forbidden games oo many times t s into a different city, o    dao a street out of    , so t see tears     tears, as , but otears: ty-one years, nine months and four days.

        all track of time, and did not knoy:    act, and o feel less alone on troubled by ude. Across from to see it ed in its dept it urday, because t     o        kno, dreaming t    sleep, in a dream t urbed by t    step s ustac tiful cc remble on so many Saturdays but t disquiet .

        ed t so tomobile     necessary: “today    going to do our took o t ts eating ice cream     color, e dis    popular because it gave off an aura of magic. Florentino Ariza drank black coffee and looked at t speaking,     one could rea of till looking at    warning:

        “I am going to marry.”

        So ainty,    then she recovered and smiled.

        “t’s a lie,” s marry.”

        t afternoon     eady do as ter tc s tands on tties, seen t    e to todoor stalls to take back to scy several times op do somed to t    tomobile for    sed to take a drive        to see o full sciousness of bot nigo e a letter of apology to Fermina Daza, its only purpose to s    given up, but    it off until t day. On Monday, after exactly to ter.

        It    girls    on t in t lit Florentino Ariza’s o    an, bland supper able in t t    after so many days of ing vanisional upter.    it    for o turn on t in t tter on t t table, and ranquillity t    and    on took off , folded it    on top of t, ook    tie and t oned    doo    and loosened    so t er ease, and at last ook off    and put it by to dry.

        to tremble because    knoer     t , for    remember plag it on t, aking care not to smear tten, and as    occurred to    t    by t least, for    iced t only ter ting to someone o    s use tive s it not be o a slipped uead, as if it ter.    o tear opeter ten pages ation, and signed ials of her married name.

        on t trigued by to, and before    it    tier ed to receive. , unfolded, in t sook off    socks, urned out t, using tc to t last    on ac removing rousers and s, ed by t    for reading. Noime syllable by syllable, scrutinizing eae of tter’s secret iions imes, until ten    to lose all mean-ing.

        At last ,    t table, lay on    blink, ared into t midnig to tcook it to    eeto tion t    table, and resumed ture of a recumbent marble statue, ary ss in position il t six o’clock hermos.

        Florentino Ariza kne one of    steps o be. In truts caused    ed ifying t accusations t could er and ty of t ied    tter, in and of itself, gave unity, and even reized , to respond. Even more: it dema    life    t    to be. Everyt e ury’s dura-tion ill present al co front    to any of t.

        to er receiving tter from Fermina Daza,    as if ing in an abrupt and unusual absence of typeers,     of calm. ino Ariza    to Leona Cas-siani’s offid    front of ypeer,     s stop typing until the paragraph.

        “tell me sometino Ariza. “ter ten on t thing?”

        anything--was one of genuine surprise.

        “My God, man!” s never occurred to me.”

        For t very reason sino Ariza    t of it eitil t moment, and o risk it ions. ook one of typeers es joking good-naturedly: “You ’t teacricks.” Leona Cassiaic about anyto give yping lessons at    o metario t ed to teaco play tes and    a year to begin, five more to qualify for a professional orcra, and six    of o play    o buy ario t, io play in to serenade Fermina Daza from tery acc to tion of t    ty,    as t see    also be t ty-six, rument like typeer.

        . o learn tion of tters on to learn to typed, and to plete t letter    errors after tear-ing up    a solemn salutation--Se?ora--and sig ial, as ters of    in an envelope tes t ter to a ret urn address on the back.

        It ter, unlike any ten before. It did not one, or tyle, or torical air of    ional and measured t t of a gardenia ain se ion to tters o e. Years later, a typed personal letter    an insult, but at t time typeer ill an offiimal    its os domestication for per-sonal use    foreseen in tiquette. It seemed more like bold modernity, , for io Florentino Ariza, sies in reading ing, since s    eel pen.

        Florentino Ariza did not even refer to terrible letter t s    from ttempted a neion,    any refereo past loves or even to t itself: a    slate. Instead, e aensive meditation on life based on , and experience of, relatioime eo e as a plement to t in triarcyle of an old man’s memories so t it    be too obvious t it    of love. First e many drafts in yle, o read o to t    any ventional slip, test nostalgidiscretion, could revive t taste of t in , and alturning a ters to ,    it not o t detail, as if it tle: nerigues, ne o be a mad dream, o     aleaco tate of graot to anyt tself.

        to expe immediate reply, to be satisfied if tter    returo    , nor    folloement gre passed    ters beiurer ters ioned by terity of    one a    last one a day.    tandard-bearer, for     office mailing a letter to t    talk. On t o send an employee to buy enougamps for a montter into one of ted in ty.

        ritual a part of ine: ook advantage of o e, and t day, on o to stop for a moment at a er box, and    out to mail tter. o do it for tempted to do one rainy m, and at times ook tion of car-rying several letters rat one, so t it ural. t kno tional letters    Florentino Ariza addressed to e correspondence ion of t t    at to ts of América Vicu?a, , ate of mind and udies.

        After t monto ers and to    Fermina Daza    realize t tain tinuity. ters, more-over,    tes e envelopes, and ty of busi-ness letters. o subject ieo a crucial test, at least until    ing ime ed, in faot    ing    ubbornness of an old man made of stone , noto do in a riverboat pany t by time        possession of ies t day, or ter t, or     tary o lohe drawbridge for him.

        Meanicipation of a favorable reply, ion of    it s lady and mistress from ts purced Prudencia Pitre again several times, as o prove to    e tation    only on s of desolation. io pass by Andrea Varón’s il    turned off, and ried to lose     of love, in keeping itions, not disproved so far, t the body carries on for as long as you do.

        ions y. ed to o pick urdays at ten o’clo t t    knoo do    time     ed t girls and ake o ternoon film, to ts in to ty bazaars, or ivities for es so t    o take o to o return after t time ook    realize t s in t t    from Puerto Padre. No matter ried to soften t al c imagi. On told o marry, o    ty seemed so absurd t s about it. In a very s rue, as if    sixty years older t sixty years younger.

        Ourday afternoon, Florentino Ariza found rying to type in udy-ing typing at sced more tomatig, but it    difficult to isolate an occasional p revealed ate of mind. Florentino Ariza leaned over o read en. Surbed by , by    on    on tle girl, ticle of clot a time, tle baby games: first ttle stle baby bear, ttle ctle puppy dog, tle floies for ttle bunny rabbit, and a little kiss on tle dickey-bird. No: iative.

        Siyping    one finger of     s for    o life, gro, and    point on o lose -trol, ed,     find il o treet, and s o pieces enderness; s to taste, pepper, a clove of garlic, cil ter, ao t temperature. t girls , and ters    urdays: to t on t of asy, moved    up, and said in a tremu-lous voice:

        “Be careful, we have no rubbers.”

        Sime, turo sco cry, and s srack doino Ariza, on t:    sility of et him.

        . At t all, and ossing and turning in bed until da in teland of a ne Fermina Daza    letter because of its appearance, ial sters of long ago, and    out to be burned    of tras even taking trouble to tear it up. Just seeing t follo even opening to tio do so until time,    to teation.    be-lieve t ted     daily letters ten in, but if suced, it o be her.

        Florentino Ariza felt t    a rusorrent but a bottomless cistern er patrolling t trategy from elepory, o e across    rang many times, and at last    speaking, but te distance of t unapproachable voice weakened his morale.

        It    time t Leona Cassiani celebrated ed a small group of friends to racted and spilled cer, and tied it around o avoid a more serious act: iced t several times during dinner ook off ering. During coffee ried to take it a ing my eyes.” Leona Cas-siani    to bed astou o show.

        On t anniversary of t out invitations to a memorial Mass at tino Ariza ill received no reply, and to attend t been invited. It    more ostentatious tional. t feime os. Florentino Ariza    to arrive so t    sit    seeing    t t seats ral nave, be t find a seat to sit in tions.

        From t dress buttoned all to tips of ilian lastead of t    dition. er, e eyes ral nave, and as s, so y, so self-possessed, t sood, Florentino Ariza leaips of    til    t    separated by seven paces, but existed in t times.

        t tire ceremony, Fermina Daza stood in t of tar, as elegant as     stay in , acc to tom of to receive tual rene made ead to ts: an innovative ges-ture t ing one guest after anot last reas, and to make certain s missed a moment Florentino Ariza felt a supernatural ing    of    to everyty,     smile, said to him:

        “thank you for ing.”

        For s only received ters, s i and ful reasons to go on living. S table,    er, y of its being typeten, and a sudden blusial of ture. But sely regaiter in . S is a doleter from t.” er urbable: “tention o burn tter later, ions, but s resist temptation of looking it over first. Sed t ier deserved, a letter t sret t s it, but from tic salutation and t of t paragrap sued t so read it at , and s times    pausing.

        It ation on life, love, old age, deat en fluttered around urnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of featried to catc as so say t    alive to discuss to discuss certais of to sleep. In tino Ariza o ed in no o tters of o t of ire life. t Escolástica, , and t astounded     time. In any case,    calmed    ainty t tter from a    an attempt to repeat tinence of t of t a very noble .

        tters t folloill, ser readi, alt    t s dissi-pate. So t ion s destroying t any rate, ial iion    to keep t to    for an opportunity to return to Florentino Ariza so t somet seemed of suc    be lost. ty    time passed and tters tio arrive, one every t t knourn t t appearing to be ted to give, and    o explaier t    permit o e.

        t first year ime for o adjust to acle in ions, is, in    iions, became a c guided but did not ruly needed    as an apparition but as flesainty t ill alive but    riarco love ual of inopportune kisses and tender ood ter tood t o find in y t seemed to be tay of    iy he never possessed.

        One day, at t of desperatio    uand urbed, ook off eristic gesture, ransparent ers of    of    t important t    stability.” it loneliness of ood t t ceal t t stributed to it at time, but o h so many happy hours.

        On    every object t attracted tention because of its y. Sive impulse t o rationalize, and tiful, useful objects as long as t, in ting to ton,    t a of Strauss zes ic Festivals y degrees in turn and-ing trunks made of polisal, ed coffins, lady and mistress of test marvels,    in ting moment ime. For t is    othem.

        So groen o say: “e o get rid of all tris; to turn around.” Dr. Urbino s, for    tied spaces o be filled again. But sed, because it rue t t ts s for European ers squeezed into t a m y trunks, tear apart ttics, and ion against t oo often, ts so ill in fasists from tions, and o t black    to ire m terior terrace ate of crisis, and in t    to breatter gusts from t in a fe took pity on so mucreover brocades and useless pieces of passementerie, so many silver fox tails, all o the fire.

        “It is a sin to burn t eve.”

        And so tponed, it poned, and ted from to tables t ransformed into ste bins for remnants, o fill up again, to overflo lived for a moment and t to die in ts: until t time. S someto do    use anymore but t you still ot t.” t rue: sy s kept invading living spaces, displag to til Fermina Daza puss out of sig as ordered as people t, but se meto be so: s Juvenal Urbino died, to empty out udy and pile to lay out the body.

        Deat tion. Once s    trembled, and on tio lig regular intervals, t, old aree cut back at ts until t of t mis-fortune, and s to ty. Only the kind of house she had always dreamed of: large, easy, and all hers.

        er Ofelia spent turo Neo visit io, tried out ne o date on t life of tiable    tio exist     faitocrat of ter tiff is aing    only provided    pany, sed s t y, and t because of tective s sified he idow Urbino.

        It seemed incredible, but as t anniversary of    ering a place t    yet a be for several montteations of Florentino Ariza o recover o    alloand o a ty. ting at tial opportunity for o let Florentino Ariza kno soo, to ters of encement, o erase t.

        ter s kind of letter from ten on linen paper and e name inscribed    clarity on t e ing as in ters, to lyricism, but applied to a simple paragrapitude for tesy of ing ier Fermina Daza tio t it roubled memories, but    on to knoino Ariza, ts. Lucrecia replied t so be a    c    offiig story for as long as s iven it any importance.

        But ed ion by Lucrecia del Real del Obispo, ime te tastes, s resist to clarify matters. Sino Ariza since    ions sreet of indo.” S t Lucrecia took back    me.” Fermina Daza    curious enougo ask e a defense of a man o t    anotter from h a warning whisper:

        “Se?ora,” sino is here.”

        rea e ion to receive visitors, to talk about. But santly and told o so tidied ino Ariza ed at treet door, burning u in full trol of tuation.    to be received, eveainty kept    to o t ime to t testines suddenly filled in an explosion of painful foam.    doter, and ionless in til t attack of so accept any mis t moment except t misfortune.

        e al stipation, rayed imes in times o give in. Only on trut o repeat i: “I do not believe in God, but I am afraid of    ime for doubts: ried to say any prayer     taugting a bird one: “Aim, aim, got my aim--if I miss you I’m not to blame.”    o try for t time , and the bird fell down dead.

        In a fused    oo do ed t it did not . A ting in s like ted , t grumbled a lament a . t ened by ’s t.” Sable, but ternoon sun    o close it again.     anot, and t invisible in t seeing ate.

        “You    take off your jacket,” so him.

        t s    o endure just an instant loo say no, o ask    visit. Still standing, so ed o terra tio, o her like a sigh of sorrow.

        “I beg you, let it be tomorrow,” he said.

        S tomorro, but s solution: “ter tomorro five o’clock.” Florentino Ariza t fare, a    tasting tood in t uanding omobile’s backfiring faded at treet. tino Ariza sed into a less painful position in t, closed o t er so many years in    any-t w of his house, he said:

        “Be careful, Don Floro, t looks like cholera.”

        But it ino Ariza t on Friday, at five o’clock so terra tio, able set for tino Ariza asked for coffee, very    and very strong, and sold trong infusion of different kinds of Oriental teas, er a. By time sied teapot and , ttempted and topics of versation, not so mucerested in t in order to avoid ot o broach.

        timi-dated, t uand errace iles in a    be-loo no one and t ill redolent of cemetery flo    time in ury t time to look at eacy, and t t t    beloo t    last be vinced of ty of    this would redeem his insolence.

        In order to avoid unfortable silences or undesirable subjects, sions about riverboats. It seemed incredible t raveled to do    knoo    knoo t y of excuses: to t of titude, ty of tices of tralism. And so t t knory. No fleoo toino Ariza ented: “It is like a flying coffin.” S balloon flig s sure. S s transportation.

        At times took ieuvers on tenary of tor. One of turkey buzzard, grazed t a piece of ree, and    not even t ence of airplanes. I years s even y to go to Manzanillo Bay, er tional boats. Because of o greet C of roses and all, so blond, so raption t looked as if it ed tin and t to    it off t could not get it t airplanes not mue could carry eig ts tacks by bandits.

        Florentino Ariza explai time: ts el rooms, e batris, and ttacks si civil ion of a personal triump to tion t    for and ed pe-tition: instead of a single pany, as in t, tive and prosperous. ion    to all of tried to sole s    because t many people crazy enougo get into a traption t seemed to go against nature. tino Ariza spoke of improvements in mail service, transportation as    to alk about ters. But    successful.

        Soon after ed to ter t    arrived by special urban mail, a ret creation t used tribution as telegrams. As always, s find ino Ariza remained calm.

        “t    be necessary,” ter is mine.”

        And so it en it terrible state of depression because    overe t of    frustrated visit. In it inence of attempting to visit    first obtaining o return.     ts it oo late to retrieve it. But    believe so many explanations o read tter.

        “Of course,” ser all, letters belong to tes t you agree?”

        he made a bold move.

        “I do,”    is urned when an affair is ended.”

        Sentions aurer to    is a s I ot read it, because t deal.” ook a deep breatou saneous a manner, and    imagine o kno.” But s, and    ma it up again for t of ternoon.

        er six o’clock, as to turn on ts in t more secure but did not    fet Fermina Daza’s fickle cer and uable reas at ty, and o t sy, if    return anotook him by surprise.

        “e back w always alone.”

        Four days later, on tuesday, urned unannounced, and s    for tea to be served to tell ters    t letters in trict sense of t pages from a book t o e. Soo, ood t , seo return t take t as an insult, so t t to better use. Sinued speaking of    time, itude, perion, t Florentino Ariza risked somet .

        “e called eacú before,” he said.

        It    flying overried to elude it. But    even furtters.” So make a serious effort to ceal it. But    o move act, alt emper ill as s as it o soften it.

        “I mean,”    tters are somet.”

        “Everythe world has ged,” she said.

        “I ,” he said. “have you?”

        S ea o    had survived so many inclemencies.

        “By no does not matter,” s turned seventy-two.”

        Florentino Ariza felt ter of . o find a reply as rapid and    ted ed by so brief a versation,    pain in , and eac ecallic resonan eries.    old, forlorn, useless, and o cry    t    speak. timents, and o ask a maid t ters. o keep t    tion o say. Before    ed ing ba tuesday at time. S.

        “I don’t see s would make,” she said.

        “I    t they made any sense,” he said.

        And so urned on tuesday at five o’clock, and tuesday after t, and ion of notifying s ed into botines. Florentino Ariza brougs for tea, died uts, Greek olives, little salon delicacies t uesday    ure of aken by tograpury before, eeavos at a postcard sale in the Scribes.

        Fermina Daza could not uand    o be tand it as a miracle of love. One m, as ting roses in ino Ariza could not resist temptation of taking oo    visit. It    problem in t urkey, e, but    been able to obtain any for acclimatization in io. After muc e rose, e: it did not say anyt t minute, in case Fermina Daza tribute some meaning to it, horns.

        It    entions, and tuesday ritual er er of tea table. Ouesday, as ly casual manner:

        “In our day it    roses.”

        “t is true,” s tention , and you kno.”

        t is    alempt to move fore ino Ariza realized t    to turn     see s o turned ion on ino Ariza o move to otopics, but esy    s, and t increased    uesday. S of asking    to return, but t ta it provoked a fit of lauguesday, o    not a vestige of rese    over from the previous week.

        s soon began to acquire an aude, for Dr. Urbino Daza and imes appear as if by act, and tay to play cards. Florentino Ariza did not kno Fermina taug one visit and t a ten co tuesday. t for everyos, and patterns ablisribution. Dr. Urbino and    feer, brouge pastries, a different one eacime. Florentino Ariza ti delicacies from to tribute a neuesday of every mont o tribute someto t game.

        ts ed, e blusal fortitude. But it    on first meeting    , ino Ariza most feared people    gave a more e to    er couple to play cards ino Ariza’s insatiable need for love overflo    of a family.

        One nigogeto omorro ty, at t e dis to refuse admission for any number of reasons, and one of t important i-mate birt annoyan tino Ariza ion of being asked to leave    table as t of one of tino Ariza    to take o eat.

        “test obligation to abide by to him.

        ino Ariza took t asked to sign table guests. t ts tone ing t roubled Florentino Ariza siernoon vanis if. Dr. Urbino Daza ed to talk to     ino Ariza realized t so    ill more surprising: sold    tes from time of    roduced o reading, for er s spent long ions sránsito Ariza, perf prodigious feats of embroidery, for sable teac if s tinued seeing Florentino Ariza     been t because of heir lives had diverged.

        Before o t of entions, Dr. Urbino Daza made several digressions on t of aging.    t t ty, like armies in t t.” arian and by token a more civilized future i be spared tion, suffering, and frig of vieo    y. But until t degree of cy, tion ural disagreements ion.    so old.”

        ell, ted to tino Ariza for tude of o tinue doing so for to ieno Ariza e of tervie emptation of givio h an ironic barb.

        “In ty of ture,” o visit tery n    of arum lilies for lunch.”

        Until t moment Dr. Urbino Daza    noticed teness of ications, and ions t only made matters    Florentino Ariza o extricate , for    sooner or later o ing like to satisfy an unavoidable social vention: t for    only in and of itself but because it s inexorable request o be. If ed on Fermina Daza’s sent, no occasioion at toricy of a request    de trop.

        Even in ino Ariza climbed up and doairs    old age began    minor fall and t deataircase in    dangerous of all to    eep and narro not t ,    ep and botcer. It en been suggested t         off til    mont it o old age. As t took o airs, not because it    because er and greater care in the climb.

        ernoon if of port ariumpion, ried to reacair ep t ed    ankle, fell back kill y to t    going to die of t because t allo.    into a plaster cast from    to o remain immobile in bed, but or ordered sixty days of valesce,    believe une.

        “Don’t do to me, Doctor,” en years for you.”

        ried to get up several times,    atue’s, y aled     ill painful and o believe t destiny ial fall.

        t Monday    o accept tality of not seeing Fermina Daza ternoon for t time in four monter a resigned siesta, ted to reality and e e exg e it by    it could be read in tized ty of    in an effort to arouse er, very sympatic, very kind,    one ra, just as in t days of tunity as it flee to ime, o go mucuesday versations, and elepalled o ext of keeping an eye on tor to eumber t    siime . t voice strained by tery of distaer tional ping. Florentino Ariza ated by    the beginning.

        ter, ter from Fermina Daza in o call again. elepy t all unication took plaatter if t at    be. Iurn for sus, ss, t-kept dramas of te lives, and it    unusual for o interrupt a versation in order to express    of vieo calm tempers. too, t year marked tice, an eveniack t names, ined and unencumbered ed to the Social Club.

        Despite    friends. So t sained ion to Florentino Ariza by means of tic tters. t and inte    about isement of t about everyted otally to ing on table table used in als to serve meals to patients.

        tú again, again taries on tters, and again Florentino Ariza tried to move too quickly: e    of a pin on tals of a camellia a it to ter. ter it urned    : all t seemed like co    of all ed on evoking ternoons of melancters e to screes. it s appeared to be a casual question in t of otrivial remarks: “ on talking about    exist?”

        Later sless insisten not permitting o groural o e and stant blundering as . S uand s t rengto endure angled in so ctempted to apply to    o give o face ture,    e, could not decip time pass and    brings. For udent as sy, ty of ion t time ing, o see o    e and more tragic t time, o t ty of death.

        Leona Cassiani o bato cable urinal for o tor so t y    cause ots. On Satur-days and Sundays so receive eac year. o send o Alabama for furtudy, at t to quiet    to face eit s knoo ions t o her.

        s at sc    ter from t sual first pla to last, and t s failed ions. But y as guardian: o América Vicu?a’s parents, restrained by a sense of guilt t ried to elude, and    discuss it    sry to impli-cate    t realizing it, o defer    deathem.

        taircase in tanding as sime ter    o give    t-time, Sunday s ters, forced to marry.

        It did not seem possible t t and back by tremble    and beloian cotton, and massaged ire body,    a single sig explanation for    it o deat-tributed it to a ricacies s deciprut s o han he did in being so well served.

        Fermina Daza needed no more tuesdays to realize ino Ariza’s visits. S visitors, and sime distanced s. Lucrecia del Real del Obispo o Panama to    noter a montter, but rumpet. Fermina Daza    tolerant of ions and anso Lucrecia t    by t s stop in at any    for Fermina Daza no one could take ternoons ino Ariza.

        t did not redeem ture, as ed on believing. On trary, it strengtion t Fermina Daza    tement of ty iful, but it    been love. Despite y s io disclose t to    in    to tell imentalities of ters sounded after tion of teations, rimental en recap-turing t o    one line of ters of long ago, not a single moment of    tuesday afternoons    edious, as lonely, and as repetitious as they really were.

        In one of tacks of simplificatioo tables t , and o present to t in ty. In t to use it again, for a en to any kind of music    offending te. But after ary tuesday s brougo t to enjoy timental song on tation, as s to fill iago de Cuba. It er ter so lose t of reading t ed igue of opped altoget mont    her reading glasses.

        Sook suco tiago de Cuba t sed ience for eacime to time seo to find out uro distant, clear merengues from Santo Domingo and plenas from Puerto Rico. One nigation t suddenly came in as strong and clear as if it    door, sbreaking ne, o deat teen dollars.

        t on ating ory, en to deatine lovers ions togety years, but ears t c letter,    any ent, Florentino Ariza se    out of the paper.

        t t tears t Fermina Daza o ino Ariza    yet finisy days of seclusion ory, plete onists, about t love affair betion on tails of tionsings and y of o excesses of sodomy ation. tory, publisters in an ink taclysm on tocraot a line of it rue: Juvenal Urbino and Lucrecia del Real ier t t did not seem t tory o sully t, but to ied President of tory    visit Fermina Daza again, and Fermina Daza in-terpreted t.

        It    im-muo tice attacked o exile, sance of old to er, er ervie im of slas    t agents o t, sear top to bottom    finding    last ordered to be opened. Gala Placidia, op anyone from doing anyto open it,    s s broke tt of uffed erfeit hundred-dollar bills.

        t in a c led to Lorenzo Daza as t iional operation. It erful fraud, for termarks of t seemed to be magid reprinted as es. Lorenzo Daza claimed t ter er’s    it must o t, but t it erfeit fortune beold    o ry in order to cover up t told much more.

        It said t during one of t tury, Lorenzo Daza ermediary bet of t Aquileo Parra and one Josep. K. Korzenioive of Poland and a member of t s Antoine, sailing u several m to clude a plicated arms deal. Korzenio some t of arms from , ials and s in order and to tory in t tolen in an improbable raid, and to tives .

        Justice also said t at time t General Rafael Reyes fou a s of surplus boots at a very lo one deal une in six monto t reac, Lorenzo Daza refused to accept it because it tained only boots for t foot, but oms aued it acc to t it for token sum of oime, under similar circumstances, an aplice purc of boots for t foot t ook advantage of ionso ts to t a profit of t.

        tory in Justice cluded by saying t Lorenzo Daza did not leave San Juan de la aga at t tury ier opportunities for er’s future, as o say, but because    iing imported tobacot even t sopicated smokers noticed tion. to a destiernatioerprise able business at t tury    mule trading, ion, seemed to be t business he had ever engaged in.

        ino Ariza left ick for t time instead of    excursion o Fermina Daza’s ranger, ravaged by age,    royed o live. Dr. Urbino Daza, in ts o Florentino Ariza during o urbed ories in Justice. t provoked o sual a y and y t som of visiting t infuriated     s sed to s at    Lucrecia del Real kno it to    sake fort i one real man in tory about Lorenzo Daza, to knoself or ed discovery of rue cer. But one or ted her.

        ainless steel,    no looked like ragged yellorands of    silk, and iful pant recover t    of    to go on living    in every gesture. S sook it up again, for t time in publid rolled voracity, at first tes so do, and tores be-cause sime or patieo do it    ture could    deat not Florentino Ariza. er, for it seemed to    Fermina Daza’s misfortune glorified    ified    amed cer s ty.

        Seful to Florentino Ariza, be-cause in respoo tories, ten Justi exemplary letter ing ties of t for ot publis, but t a copy to t and most serious er on t page. Signed er,” it ten t it tributed to some of t notable ers in t    it    dept distance. Fermina Daza kneold, because seaken directly from Florentino Ariza’s moral refles. And so sion in tude. It    time t América Vicu?a found urday afternoon i of indo looking for t, syped copies of tations of Florentino Ariza and tteers of Fermina Daza, in a    a key.

        Dr. Urbino Daza ion of ts t gave so muc to    Ofelia, er, came from Ne fruit boat as soon as s Fermina Daza range friendsions    t. o critical proportions during t ino Ariza came into ting lovers’ quarrels t filled ts until all .    for Dr. Urbino Daza wo lonely old people was for    age.

        Ofelia Urbino , resembling Do?a Blanca, ernal grand-moter. Like inguis, and like    t t friends of all ter argument    all Florentino Ariza o do to plete ion of to climb into    o face o face    er-vened ification of love at any age. Ofelia lost emper.

        “Love is ridiculous at e,” sed, “but at t is revolting.”

        Sed ermination to drive Florentino Ariza out of t it reaco ed to talk    being s, and so repeat ions. Ofelia did not soften tain t Florentino Ariza, ion as a pervert o everyone, ions did more o tures of Juvenal Urbino. Fermina Daza listeo    saying a    even blinking, but wo life.

        “t s me is t I do nto give you ting you deserve for being i and evil-minded,” s you    noo you on my mot you    set foot in it again as long as I live.”

        t could dissuade    to live in    all kinds of petitions inguis it ion of ervention of    last, in tter days, so fide in er-in-laained a certain plebeian camaraderie. “A tury ago, life scre poor man and me because oo young, and no to do too old.” S a cigarette    to all t    her insides.

        “to age, it is t t to give us orders.”

        to be done.    last s sions, Ofelia returo Neer muco say goodbye to    s allo t ill pure.

        On one of s,    ino Ariza ation to take a pleasure cruise along traveling by train s tional capital, ion, still called by t bore until t tury: Santa Fe. But sai    to visit a cold, dismal city    to attend five o’ass aer ice cream parlors or public offices, and raffic at all , and rong attra to ted to see tors sunnio be a by tees, but t ic to her.

        Florentino Ariza repeated tation later on,        after er, embittered by ts to oical duplicities of Lucrecia del Real, io wree of une would never bloom again.

        “ I o    of this house, and keep going, going, going, and never e back,” she said.

        “take a boat,” said Florentino Ariza.

        Fermina Daza looked at fully.

        “ell, I mig do t,” she said.

        A moment before s, t    even occurred to    all so do    ty for it to be sidered a reality. er-in-lao point out t on    of o    like    service, and taio y and e maps to ence ure postcards of furious sus, poems to tive paradise of tten by illustrious travelers and by travelers by virtue of t the mood.

        “You do not o e as if I    because teresting.”

        ed t    ly: “I am too big to ake care of me.” Sails of trip. S immense relief at t of spending eigraveling upriver and five on turon dresses, oiletries, a pair of sime dream.

        In January 1824, odore Joion, ered t steamboat to sail tive old forty-y. More tury later, o six o’clo t t o carry    river voyage. It    vessel built in tened Ney in memory of its glorious aor. Fermina Daza could never believe t so signifit a name for torical d not anot born of Florentino Ariza’s cicism.

        In any case, us, a and modem, Ney boasted a suite o tain’s quarters t able: a sitting room ure covered iive colors, a double bedroom decorated in Cifs, a batub and sion deck ructed vieo and bot, and a silent cooling system t kept out external noises and maintained a climate of perpetual spring. tions, knoial Suite be-cause ts of trip in t ino Ariza e built for t public purpose as soon as    of t e vi    sooner or later it o be trip h Fermina Daza.

        took possession of tial Suite as its lady and mistress. tain ino Ariza, ano, e linen uniform t ely correct, from tips of s to ains, toutness of a ceiba tree, a peremptory voice, and tine cardinal.

        At seven o’clock t departure    it resonate    ear. t before,    s dare to decipo take o tery, and as sood in front of , sed all t recrimina-tions sold ails of trip and said goodbye for noell anyone anyt t s so Europe, in order to avoid exing faree all ravels, s as if t trip, and as tation increased. Once s abandoned and sad, ao be aloo cry.

        ic goodbye, and Florentino Ariza apao tried to stand aside so t Florentino Ariza could folloino Ariza aking trip. Dr. Urbino Daza could not hide his fusion.

        “But    discuss this,” he said.

        Florentino Ariza so oo evident an iion: an ordinary    on t to Dr. Urbino Daza t seem suffit proof of innoce.    ernation, , but oo?” Yes: oo, like er Ofelia, t t . But o recover in time, and o Florentino Ariza    eful.

        From tino Ariza c as uro look at o tomobile, and    til tomobile disappeared in t of t yard, and t to o co clotable for    dinner on board in tain’s private dining room.

        It ano seasoales of y years on t Fermina Daza o make an enormous effort to appear amused. Despite t t t eigors o leave and t did not set sail until tain ing and gone up to to direct tion. Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza stayed at ts on ify ts in ty, until t sailed out of ttered ing lig last took a deep breat Magdalena River. t into a popular tuampede of passengers, and in a mad rushe dang began.

        Fermina Daza preferred to take refuge in    said a ire evening, and Florentino Ariza allo in s. errupted o say good nigside    s tired, just a little ced t t for a o o Ariza urned off ts, placed a e from ttle box of tobacco t     slo end inside    speaking, and t after tino Ariza drank tain coffee.

        ts of ty    of a full moon, t river and tureland o plain. From time to time one could see a stra to t bonfires signaling t ino Ariza still ning t of to life as if terday. ed some of to Fermina Daza in t t animate    s smoking in anotino Ariza renounced    ime tes and passed to , until ty. topped after midnigo sleepy ing in time to the ship.

        After a long    Fermina Daza by t of tly, ured profile softened by a tenuous blue lig s instead of soling ing until all ears    sed, o overe him.

        “Do you    to be alone?” he asked.

        “If I did, I    old you to e in,” she said.

        t    for t ing for o realize, at ting instant, t t touent, o speak of    tense, as if ino Ariza kne for oo, time o ask y, y, o live, er.

        Fermina Daza stopped smoking in order not to let go of t ill in    in o uand. S ceive of a ter t oo many mutual misuandings, useless arguments, unresolved angers. Suddenly s is incredible    of so many squabbles, so many problems, damn it, and not really kno .” By time surned off t moved a its steady pace, one foot in front of ted from her longing.

        “Go now,” she said.

        Florentino Ariza pressed    too kiss    s voice.

        “Not now,” so him. “I smell like an old woman.”

        Seps on tairs, so exist until t day. Fermina Daza lit anotte, and as se linen suit, ipped e    in a gesture of fare out of t. “e meo     scale, no fortress s destroy, no moral sideration s ig its very root: t.” Fermina Daza sat motionless until da Florentino Ariza, not as te sentinel in ttle Park of t aalgia in    as    real: t carried o roses, all t s Florentino Ariza    day.

        ructed teo let ed, and able e rose, drops of deill on it, as ter from Florentino Ariza ten since o    ter t did not attempt to do more tate of mind t ive si: it orical as all of t it ion iy. Fermina Daza read it    because of t. It cluded    t seing on to sion of the ship.

        S eleven o’clock, bated soap, amine, and pletely recovered from t’s turmoil. S from teain’s personal service, but s send a message for ao e for    up alone, dazzled by tino Ariza talking to tain on t to    only because s because iy ead of table    sleeves, and    pocket. e Scottisual eyeglasses for myopia.

        It    t everyt time and    just for trip, ion of t of dark broiced at first glance as if it    for ent a manner, s    rose to ed . t ts    t Captain Samaritano noticed it remor of passion. ricated ty by spending t tion of t banks t meandered betretco t uroubled ers at tal u it a filled h islands of sand.

        “It is all t,” said tain.

        Florentino Ariza, in fact, ion became more difficult and    ters, one of t rivers of tain Samaritano explaio ty years of un-trolled deforestation royed ts    of colossal trees t ino Ariza on    voyage. Fermina Daza    see ters for skins from tanneries iors t,    for butterflies, ts ic screams    as troyed, tees    breasts t    on tinct species, annied by ts of ers for sport.

        Captain Samaritano    maternal affe for tees, because tant love, and rut t es. ing at tom despite ting it. Once, a er from Nort from tered tee motic    ain    on board so t , aer beed bank, o t six mont of diplomatic protests and almost lost or’s lise, but    prepared to do it again, as often as till, t oric episode: tee, s kind seen along the river.

        “Eacime I pass t bank,” o God t t I    leave him behind all ain.”

        Fermina Daza, ain, endered giant t from t m on . S rip    beginning, and so realize t s been mistaken.

        Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza remained on til it ime for lunc oe s a feual fiesta and reets. ture t o t uand    tain explai s of a droeo lure so t Fermina Daza sa, and s t s exist, but her face seemed familiar.

        It uro er luncable siesta, but s sleep ings ino Ariza fell into instantaneous sleep in t of t s        tury, and it    in t     once so enigmatid so amusing t    for t of ternoon as ain and the passengers who were friends of his.

        It gre doo life. to emerge from a tra bato fres in ting for supper, ly five o’clock by a er an’s bell, to mog applause. ing, to play fandangos, and tinued until midnight.

        Fermina Daza did not care to eat because of tc load of aken on from a bare gully acked logs and a very old mao be anot edious stop t    e s even on ion deck. But    of t, and toio    in only one    sig passed by    a greeting.

        Fermina Daza    tire afternems Florentino Ariza o see    knog at    o’clock so be    out into to meet    er, and s o go very far: Florentino Ariza ting on a bend forlorn as    togetrolled t-class deck, cro of terous students ion. In tino Ariza and Fermina Daza sat at tudents ttled soft drinks, and suddenly sening situation. Sino Ariza asked    s caused ress.

        “ten to deat.”

        to turn in er a long, untroubled versation on tion deck. tniant. Florentino Ariza rolled cigarettes for    s smoke more tormented by pain t s and flare up again    passed anot sloo sound told    longing c tic Festival, on t, on t’s velocipede,    longing ed all year for public festivals just so en seen    o see    ters and    ed in tic Festival: t ino Ariza lied to e only for     ing for ed for    before. Instead, sook ino Ariza’s    froze.

        “range women are,” he said.

        S into laug again about t. It    t nig because s untroubled and calm, as simes in il da, o    s eorment in     roo be    telling    it e    s because s    to o    s    back to port if t would relieve her pain.

        Florentino Ariza    nig tried to kiss , but s ced, tis    kno sried to suppress ten after .

        “My God,” she said, “ships make me so crazy.”

        Florentino Ariza sill, as o    t    give off t    ected it on ion. It atioed in , o old ink like a olerated eacc yours. Oaken care of América Vicu?a, incts in    urbed at t sy old man. But all t beloo t. tant t not siernoon ica left er in telegrapino Ariza felt t t nige frightened him.

        At five o’clock o doze off, o    telegram. It ed ts ained in a single line: América Vicu?a dead yesterday reasons unkno eleven o’clo tails from Leona Cassiani in a telegraped transmitting equipment for t time since elegrapor. América Vicu?a, in tal depression because sions, olen from tino Ariza kory e. But no: América Vicu?a    no explana-tory    ake place t afternoon at five o’clock. Florentino Ariza took a breato stay alive    to alloo time in t    to    revive, he sudden pang of an old scar.

        t folloermiead of tangle of colossal trees t onisino Ariza on    voyage, ted flatlands stripped of entire forests t s, and treets remained flooded even in t droug nig by tees on t by ting steng doo t till floated by. tain, for once, ell t tal droims.” Instead of ts and tous noise of invisible monkeys, ime ensified tifling midday , all t     silence of the ravaged land.

        taking on    from eac by trip ty    of fuel. Sranded for almost a tered trees. tters rails, fleeing ty of t govers    on racted decrees. In time, tests, anized ing expedi-tions, aur open from top to bottom and seer removing ters of soft, translut eggs t trung over to dry. ty-stri prostitutes from nearby villages folloions, improvised tents in t musid liquor randed vessel.

        Long before    of tino Ariza s on tate of t es: “Don’t ime ts fueled by oil.” itook trouble to t it, and by time rut bring in a neers    t, ts o anig of being alive became unendur-able.

        Most of tilential stenc t s of predatory creatures oo dry t perspiration, and at daed and ses. An Englisraveler at teentury, referring to t could last as long as fifty days, ten: “t miserable and unfortable pilgrimages t a rue during t eigeam navigation, and t became true again forever e t butterfly and ternal manatees s, thing was gone.

        “tain laugomobiles.”

        For t tino Ariza ected by t springtime of tion deck, but em began to fail, tial Suite became a steam bats because of t came in tened off toes oicide bomb opped suddenly and pletely, like t s realize t s t ear until t nigino Ariza spoke to    side and so turn o     tell anyone, for so t t it s of old age.

        In spite of everytial act for tino Ariza er and nobler in calamity.” ty in tial Suite sub-merged t o love    questions. t unimaginable ure of caresses    tfalls of impatience. On tupefying niged for tle of ae,    er, after so be someoxicated in order not to t e oo mucy, but Florentino Ariza t it o give ep. Enced by t illusion, o explore ips, al stays, ed    s tremble, and s regular intervals. At last, wte in .

        “If o do it, let’s do it,” s let’s do it like grownups.”

        Sook o ts on, began to undress    false modesty. Florentino Ariza rying tain trol, once again not knoo do iger    look.”    taking he ceiling.

        “Because you    like it,” she said.

        t o , just as s sagged,     taken off, and surned out t. t up and began to undress in t    ook off,    back, dying of laughter.

        time, urbed as oxicatio        praying to God t s laugte. talked to pass time. t lives, of tranded boat ime only for deat even one, in t city ion in a steady voice:

        “I’ve remained a virgin for you.”

        S    in a, even if it rue, because ters ered less t sed ino Ariza, for , suddenly asked    o ask    kind of secret life side of     like men in t adveratagems, tions, trayals    remorse. But    to ask tion. Once, rained,    of to ood up    responding,    cluding,    saying goodbye, and o fession again,    fessor or    Florentino Ariza’s prudence ed rec    ook tep: s, s hope, and she found him, unarmed.

        “It’s dead,” he said.

        It o imes, and o live om: eacime o learn again, as if it    time. ook    on : Fermina Daza felt tiring    almost bursting tiy, ty of an adolest’s. oo muc all.” But     vi: o blame , and began to provoke ten deligy, until yrdom and uro    about il da last of te left    urn.

        But ur t of ain ostentation. So see    just as s rands under        expose , but displayed it as if it ropo give    even give ime to take off tgo s on    did not disturb     easy to distin-guisy.

        It    time sy years, and sy ing     er so long a respite. But    giveo find out if oo. It : ment t eac, despite    for te, t apart for a moment in t folloain Samaritano,    a t any-oo keep on    te rose every morn-ing, zes from ts as a joke. t try to make love again until mucer, o t t. tisfied ogether.

        t    of leaving taie inf t after lunc port on tino Ariza saory of    by a pale sun, and t tood ts name, but it seemed less evident to t t t steamed like a caldron and saar bubbling is. Moreover, t did not dock t on te bank, a Fe Railroad ed.

        t ty in ty salon, and from t t looked like a toy. One s and s from t tury t made no sense in tering, dusty . Some iful potato blossoms in t to . t e from teau after a train trip t ime to che Caribbean.

        In tling market, a very old man    of ts of .    tered overcoat t o someone mucaller and ook off , placed it brim up oo to empty s of    seemed to proliferate in    to be carpeted ravelers    realizing it. Fasated by tacle t seemed to be performed in c, Fermina Daza did not notice rip began to e on board. ty il a s ake refuge in ino Ariza found raugrip, by people ser tion affected Florentino Ariza so muc o to protect he .

        to    once as te dining room. tain roubled by a problem ed to discuss for a long time ino Ariza, ime, eo     ts carried cargo upriver, but came back empty, age of cargo is t it pays more as noted discussion ing ty of establisial fares, ate     Florentino Ariza pursued to its end, and only tion t tain t o a solution:

        “And speaking ically,”    be possible to make a trip    stopping,    cargo or passengers,    ing into any port,    anything?”

        tain said t it    only ically. tments t Florentino Ariza    racts for cargo, passengers, mail, and a great deal more, and most of t o bypass all t    ate of emergency. Captain Samaritano o do just t on several occasions because of ter ties ors to sigificates t called tery. Besides, many times in tory of to evade taxes, or to avoid pig up an undesirable passenger, or to elude inopportune iions. Florentino Ariza reacable.

        “ell, t’s do t.”

        tain aken by surprise, but tinct of an old fox, hing clearly.

        “I and on t you and us,” ing and    now.”

        Florentino Ariza    time of ded despite all tatistics from ttle cargo taken on ransferred, told t m t t beloo aible reasons, Florentino Ariza could not see    be legitimate to do t tain asked    top io o pick up someone woo,    .

        So ty    day,    cargo or passengers, and ly from t. At dusk io aller and stouter tain, an unoy ain called    and leave in anot sad place of deatino Ariza relived rain from Envigadling to climb trail, t inue    of trip. But no one cared: ting fiesta s o nigribution to t doo tions of t sed and t Florentino Ariza ed Eggplant al Amor.

        Duriil ting, took gritty siestas t left ted, and as soon as tra began to play, and tte il t and drink no more. It     rusers,    ire voyage. Some villages fired cable ons for titude o, sigorip.

        Fermina Daza te ster    roses    t t daer t God ed a manatee and placed it on t tamalameque just so it could a tron nursing t sino nor Fermina ake    up before o bruseet in a glass on on    in to do it for ual p needing t he cup a pain in her back.

        Florentino Ariza, for , began to revive old memories ra, and in z of “t for il to stop. One nig time in ears of sorro e, at t beaten to deatman. On t rain did not affect    too late t per as gloomy as it    Santa Fe did not reets. tino Ariza appeared on trunks, free of social itments: voyages of love.

        t before ty s. t nigain and Zenaida da boleros t    beginning to break s in tino Ariza dared to suggest to Fermina Daza t te z, but s time , and t    realizing it, te t so be airs, and stack of laugil s last sranquil,    lunatic voyage. trary to ain and Zenaida supposed, t like need lovers. It    over traigo t of love. togetfalls of passion, beyond tal mockery of oms of disillusion: beyond love. Feto kno love ime and anyplace, but it    came to death.

        t six o’clock. Sed te, and    unned by t Dr. Juvenal Urbino ree, and t ting in ing for    to realize t t not of tte but of    return.

        “It is going to be like dying,” she said.

        Florentino Ariza artled, because    t    ting in any ot on t o t o sleep.    a certain moment, t    rutil    tear    to himself how much he had loved her.

        up, already dressed foing as being around ts and t-forms of oil    ty of t Fermina Daza, standing at t bear tilential stink of its glories, ts bul say anyt    capable of capitulating so easily.

        tain in tion t did not accord ual ness:    from lack of sleep, ill sy from t, errupted by belcte. Zenaida o eat t in silence,    ordered to stop the ship.

        tain, standing on ted o tions put to rol. ted to knoile possibility tions. tain replied t t t in strict seclusion. to e on board in La Dorada, and ty-seven men of t act    trol    satisfied, and o leave t in Las Mercedes Marsil ternoon, ai loose , and    to turn around and go back to the marshes.

        Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza able, but t did not seem to matter to tain. io eat in silence, and    in tiquette t sustaiation of t captains.    ip of e tain, ino Ariza looked at    speaking, as if ing on a sco    ex rol, nor did test idea of    t tain    in temples.

        ion of eggs, tray of fried plantains, and t of café    lec ts boilers quiet, made its s of taruya, tus -suro ter    ing on te of stealter circled above tallic cries. t made by t in ing of o , tuary of t Magdalena River spread out to the world.

        to eat oain o i slang t ended ond for all tation for fine speec captains. For    speaking to to anyone else, but rying io e to terms er a string of barbaric curses,     of tten into he cholera flag.

        Florentino Ariza listeo    blinking. t te circle of t on t a single cloud, ters t could be navigated forever, and he said:

        “Let us keep going, going, going, back to La Dorada.”

        Fermina Daza sed by t, and s tain: iny. But tain did not see upefied by Florentino Ariza’s tremendous poion.

        “Do you mean w you say?” he asked.

        “From t I ino Ariza, “I    mean.”

        tain looked at Fermina Daza and sary frost. t Florentino Ariza, repid love, and ed suspi t it is life, more t s.

        “And his goddamn ing and going?” he asked.

        Florentino Ariza    y-ts.

        “Forever,” he said.
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