ON tion of tury, tive program of public ceremo memorable of    of tiative of Dr. Juvenal Urbino. y gato express t at t of taffeta in t airmail to San Juan de la aga, some ty leagues to t as tement of flig t to climb into t, follo and six distinguiss. tter from to t ed for all time t t mail transported t from t ure, and    even take time to t t would earn him so much abuse.

        “In my opinioury is passing for everyone except us.”

        Lost in t sang tional antitude, Florentino Ariza felt    s o t t t a suitable exploit for a    of all one as old as Fermina Daza. But it    so dangerous after all. Or at least not so mucs destination    i after a peaceful trip t along tains and tness of t S.

        From t as God say of Cartagena de Indias, t beautiful in ts inants because of ter turies of resistao trocities of till intact, treets, tifications devoured by sease, tars and tting heir armor.

        trojas in Cataca, painted in lunatic colors, le rine gardeed by everyone’s sing, o ter, jumping out of    toniso recover ttles of coug food t tiful lady    to t of the balloon.

        tations,     a girl    like e parasols and s made of gauze. t, ivated fields, tracks, ted irrigation ditc t So look the spyglass.

        “ell, it must be a very special form of eck.”

        A s    i on a broad,    beacer burned like fire. tec-tion against tary sctle flags in time to ty queens o. All t Fermina Daza ed o see o front it    memories, but no one o go toric letter, ion almost suffocated in tedium of t could not make t last to t Pueblo Viejo,    draeam of oxeory several times to ing t s possibly recall t.

        “I remember trip very e,” old    it    least five years before you were born.”

        ter tion, devas-tated by a bad nigorms, returo t in, ino Ariza, error on Fermina Daza’s faevert same afternoon in a cyg exion t     no support. Srousers trimmed in red, lemen, but no oo her skill.

        t, along o Florentino Ariza at te, and disappear again in t. taken togety of time not so mucible cime he saw her.

        One nig to Don Sanc ial restaurant, and sat in t remote er, as    a glimpse of Fermina Daza sitting at a table    an a alloer t exploded like fire ueardrop che looking glass.

        ino Ariza observed    , oucary table    of s of imacy. to pass time until    of to    inguis among ther perfumes worn by her panions.

        From t nig a year aftero tever ed, money or favors or    easy, because old Don Sanc tiful frame, carved by Viennese etmakers, o Marie Antoie and    a trace: a pair of unique je ino Ariza    for te frame but because of t for two ion.

        al onisy of Siamese cats, o greet , sy, and on occa-sion eveted    oo an impersonal regime of formalities and never made test gesture t migo suspect t s    o reduce taep sook e dire. It ime before o t imidity. to    tening of t freser vessel built in t official occasion at    Vice President of ted Uncle Leo XII. ty, and everyone of any signifi ty .

        Florentino Ariza er s in till redolent of fres and tar, ruck up a triumpo repress trembling t    as old as iful y, striding like a queen from anotime past treamers and floals tossed at to tion    sails at    to , t so be alone in t of the crowd.

        Florentino Ariza ed for team. Juvenal Urbino greeted tion line    naturalness so typical of or bore    tain in ary ander, ino Ariza, dressed in dark clot invisible among so many emi people. After greeting tary ander, Fermina seemed to ate before Florentino Ariza’s outstretcary man, prepared to introduce t kno s o Florentino Ariza , and ino Ariza aled tre after-noon e capacity for illusion, if suciless indifference mig be a subterfuge for orments of love.

        ted ed Fermina Daza’s villa, filled    tle Park of t ed iion    t s rat    sill in t    for o escape notice. trict of La Manga ed island, separated from toric city by a al of green er and covered by ts of icaco plum, imes. I years, tone bridge built by torn dos stead reetlamps for trolleys. At first ts of La Manga o eorture t    been anticipated during stru, y’s first electrical plant ahquake.

        Not even Dr. Juvenal Urbino, ige, could persuade to move it    disturb anyone, until y er-ceded on    t bley, aroyed t gallery in t of St. Julian taler. t t t nighe chapel.

        ts beautiful tradition of love    propitious for ued love s y in summer, ser, and desolate all year round, and ttered ile terraces instead of old-fasing balies, as if t for tive lovers. It    as    at time it became faso drive out in ternoon in orias t ed to oe t-breaking tter tc te, t could almost be touc passed the harbor el.

        Florentino Ariza er a    t instead of folding doop, as omary during t montay , invisible in ting ued routes so as not to arouse ts of ty, t ied rees, a luckless replica of tton plantations. Fermina Daza’s ed tle before five. Florentino Ariza ine    in almost a year of vigilahe glimpse he so desired.

        Oernoo devastating rains of Juino Ariza realized    t in front of Fermina Daza’s villa, and    t ernation migray him.

        “Not ed. “Anyw here.”

        Beo raise t unino Ariza mao climb out of t until passersby in oto take ing, a servant of tanding in mud up to     ake refuge on terrace. In t of ino Ariza une, but on t afternoon o see    dition.

        y, Juvenal Urbino and o t o’ass, o drive t times ted rees in t    in La Manga, e beacs oery, t to t on very solemn occasions. Ignorant of tino Ariza ed Sunday after Sunday on terrace of tc of all three Masses.

        take and    to til just a fe eig,    Fermina Daza    ed tery adjat to ts of La Manga uous pant skipped a beat uous of all in t ceiba trees. It e, ained-glass oering for tire family. Among t of Do?a Fermina Daza de Urbino de la Calle, ao it apogetill in the Lord.

        For t of t attend any civic or social ceremonies, not even tmas celebrations, in agonists. But    notable on t of termission, Florentino Ariza , be-yond any doubt, ioning    one mido Panama, and t so    errible illness o attack a urated h black bile:

        “A lady so distinguision.”

        Florentino Ariza kry did not tract s-term diseases. Eit    al could not be celebrated because of t intimate details eventually became publio an obligatory penan tted to God’s ist al, an immense oric dorack of ttle life t    to tary rooms ell ainty if th.

        ts t tribute o be pardoned for tion in still being alive. Some returc seemed to s to display to visit, ted from excesses of joy, and for t of t t return, including t of tuberculosis pavilion, more from tions of their disease.

        If o o Ariza did not krut no matter    find it. It o    no one could even give    t ory s, ained,    could be kept. A no oy ino Ariza tio patrol La Manga, tio    de-votion in tio attend civic ceremo never ed ate of mind, but time only increased ty of tory    for ther’s absence.

        As igation,    ots    knoo alking, and groter and rougo tunate old age. t of anise in tury, and Florentino Ariza ain t even after ained for er t    to ermio find out ts regarding Fermina Daza’s    uro to learn t at time of toric tour in ed forty-ts. t Lorenzo Daza , alt be o live    trut last ed as true tory of tal for terminally ill, and ion    disened, o tion t t s o look for it.

        It never did, for Fermina Daza ten by t ual agreement angled as adolests in table matrimony. It aken turity, une’s sneak attacks, ture ready for to learn o be old    bitterness. It ed for t ted to resolve it not s, tears, and intermediaries, as om in t ions of Europe, and tion as to uation t did not belong any so leave, not even kno of sed by ,    been able to dissuade her.

        Fermina Daza, in fact,    mid secred illa, not on a ard liner bound for Panama,    on t to San Juan de la aga, ty    to bear as t by. In defians of teen-year-old goddaug, but tains and t eac ified of old    so     ermination    to return. Dr. Juvenal Urbino ker very    ed y as God’s punis for ty of    ts on t    yet been lost to vieheir weakness.

        Altained a formal correspondence ing tters, almost t by before eit    mio spend tion in Flores de María, and Fermina Daza did tent    at least ters. Moreover, at t time t toral visit, riding ued rappings embroidered in gold.

        Bee regions, musis playing accordions, peddlers selling food and amulets; and for ty did not e for t for t ed t, and oernoon ivities to    er tters, ook Fermina Daza aside and asked to    firm manner,    argument t so repent of. Alt     least not ain t e ears.

        Dr. Juvenal Urbino used to say, not    a certain icism, t it    o blame for tter years of     of smelling took off, and t sook off, so t sell by to be laundered even t appear to be . S it    until    s.    s least times a day to smoke, but t attract tention because t of log to talk about men and smoke, and even to drink as mucers of aguardieil t on tupor.

        But    of sniffing at all to    only inappropriate but unook it as a joke, o discuss, and s God    put t diligent oriole’s beak on    for decoration. One m, , ts aroused tire o be found anyimes like a trag mastiff, and found t onished husband asked her how she had found him, she replied:

        “By the smell of caca.”

        trut    only served o    oriented    icular at t     s colliding    could only be a super-natural instinct. t frigy, one, met its moment of misfortune one ill-fated Sunday before Mass urbiion t sher man.

        First s and t c of ttons and placed everyt as siepin and topaz cuff links and tton, and trousers as ss eleven keys and ts mot ticles t    been togeto define because it    t of floificial essences but of someto ure. S notice t s    to decide if it o launder but y t gna    being.

        Fermina Daza did not ki could not be placed bet time of day, least of all or, ing done, and lune of t o     eleven o’clo to make matters or on top of    Dr. Juvenal Urbino made love only at nigter yet in absolute darkness, and as a last resort before breakfast o chirp.

        After t time, as    ime love o take off one’s clot t tamination of    stolen from s of c possibility    to prove, because unlike so many of oo proud to spy on o ask someone else to do it for    suited to iy,    to keep an eye on, because Dr. Juvenal Urbi a detailed record of eats, including t of    time ed til    of tion of their souls.

        In t follo find t agai, and t, stro been apart for even a moment. trary to om and even er-noon as if s se Bengalese magnifying glass ricate notes on t fehs.

        It    time so t office, saturated e and crammed ures, rolabes, and elaborately ed over t sanctuary t s of e life to    part of love, so t times ss    feel s to go in alone, mugage in o be i prying. But ted to find trut    as great as errible fear of finding it, and sible roe iness, even stroy: an agony t beched her.

        So dras, except for mutual friends,    of e domain; t identity, kno by t by t by ts but by ting on toions of ts. ty to a pten in    ttom of ts you at t udy after tless    so be seduced by indecy.

        Urged on by ion, so discover c appetite at table or in bed, proo exasperation and ironis time sio monitor times e, to keep track of to te, to tell o learn trut t o tradis. One nigart, terrified by a vision    at    seemed full of red. S in ino Ariza at t of    t apparition    e. Besides, time it    fantasy:    tting up io c, but w. he pillow and said:

        “You must have been dreaming.”

        After t niger similar episodes t occurred during t time, ell for certain    s last s    taken union on ti or on any Sunday i ime for t year’s retreats. ual    failed to take union on an importa day since    union, at t. In t only t ate of mortal sin but t o persist in it, since    go to    s seemed to be te opposite of love, but s to burn out t of vipers t errace ed o    any trace of ion:

        “Doctor.”

        everyone    surfag: “Oui.” Sed:

        “Look at me.”

        seeing     o take to feel burned by the raging fire in her eyes.

        “ is going on?” he asked.

        “You khan I,” she said.

        t    t    been as ; ratremor in , it    relief t o er er: t of Miss Barbara Lyncered    last.

        Dr. Juvenal Urbino    ed urn in tal, a somet occurred in iny. Sall, elegant, large-boned mulatta, ness of molasses, and t m se polka dots and a broad-brimmed    of to    of ot attend patients in t o spare, o remind udents t tter t o be present at tion of tta, makiain t    notiy gesture of    did not appear to be casual and barely looking at    fixing    afternoon, after     sing room, and in fact terrace.

        It ypical Antillean ed yelloo tin roof, s of ations and ferns    rested on    marsroupial sang in t reet o keep a tig t s roke of luck, for Miss Barbara Lyor. So ed o ed, ao accept (alt    om to drink coffee) and to listen to alk about    erested    o i    a moment’s respite, during to folloer old , t sooner or later o front a mad passion t could endaability ts,    tion. And no rue.

        Miss Barbara Lyncor of testant minister ri settlements in t mars Dr. Juvenal Urbino e o distinguisain rougax, and    slips ened y-eig long ago ser,    of o    troupial.” But Dr. Urbino oo serious to t s entions. On trary:    if so many opportunities ing toget not be one of God’s pitfalls,        delay as a piece of ting from ate of fusion.

        As    to leave,    t m’s medical sultation, kno s more talking about ts, and salking about    urn t day, at four o’clock so examine er care. S a doctor of ions o pay, but ry to ebook: Miss Barbara Lync Marsurday, 4 p.m. Monter, Fermina Daza o read t notation, augmented by details of treatment, and evolution of ttracted tention, and it suddenly occurred to    se artists from t boats, but t s e from Jamaica, a black    as not being to aste.

        Dr. Juvenal Urbino came ten minutes early for turday appoi, and Miss Lyniso receive    felt so musion since o present ion. As sy    ense: oniss,    teeting a vapor of good    o t sed s,” and Dr. Urbino t t it om t s be ignored.

        So ed ernal aioion, and as    t ture iful inside as out, and to ts of touc-qualified pli a poor soul tormented by umultuous instincts. Only once before in ere professional life o    est s patient    up in bed, and said to    you    may    it    be like to ain t tor    his sce, she said:

        “I t t permitted by your ethics.”

        ion as if    stepped out of a pool wearing all owel.

        “Our code of et ors are made of wood.”

        “t I t so does not mean you ot do,” s t it mean for poor black o ice her.”

        “I    stopped t you for an instant,” he said.

        It remulous a fession t it migy. But s lit up the bedroom.

        “I knoor,” s not a fool.”

        It ed, sed security and love, in t order, and s sunity to seduot to pee um, even    tion and auscultation ions     taking off ,    let go of t oen, and inued    daily incursions. For reasons of a practiature, it o impossible for o maintain a tinuiions oo o stop, as er be too o go any furt.

        t lead a regular life, for , carrying Bibles and evangelical pamps on one side and provisions on turn ed. Anoty reet, for te t t test clarity s doors and    troupial could learn ted lessons, t-colored turban and going about asks as sed along    Caribbean voice, and later tting on ting ternoon psalms by herself in English.

        to cime ies: ternoon recess for lunoon, after t time, altor es to spare before it ime for o eat    serious for uation. It    possible fo t o    outside    of    t t    in ure. In faiss Lyncoo obvious, to ask if it    be better for o e back later so t t spend so mucime at     typical of    him off.

        “t time since I kno I     was never said.”

        tion. In a city like t o or’s carriage stood at t times tor ook tiative and    on foot, if distance permitted, or in a o avoid malicious or premature assumptions. Sus, o little avail. Siions ordered in pruterfeit medies along    ones in order to preserve t of to die in peace along    of truto at for tside t    allo to stay too long, least of all for t of time    of his life.

        tial madness ed, to face a sdal. In t    for later. On to be    tings became more and more ic.    about noted for ternoons    ments,    everyt    as    marso God t an unforeseen obstacle    to drive past.    to ate of suc at times as uro catcerrace e-ced passages of scripture. t    defying fate again, but later    to be five o’clo ternoon all day, every day.

        So t oo spicuous, and after t became not time to say anyto tated lover ook tion of    on ted    from Jamaica     to    o make ing and dren, er o tick, , and ri love rousers dotoned so t it    get in c, h achieving pleasure.

        S dangling, barely at trance of unnel of solitude, y    t is only a part of t of love. But ime: t time o give an iion during a routine visit. turned    kept o pull down rousers and burn he brazier.

        eat,    vi, in bed eo tinue a reading o bed. As o sink doo table mangrove s glade,    tomorroes to five o’clo ternoon and ing for    t from Jamaica: the hellish circle.

        In t feextbooks, ients ory of serious ailments    syndromes t seemed to e straigexts aurned out to be imaginary.    La Salpêtrière rics as t    specialization, because c t unicate ional    only e symptoms of real diseases. After a certain age, s eitoms    t oms of minor ones. racted tives, giving time enougime to teac to feel ts, so t t t a p be able to overe t . Or    believe    of pure stific prejudice, y,    and , ands me.” But ing.

        All toms of ients made t ty t ell its size    touc.    t’s purr of    t brilliance of    teries. At times    daer. .    it lose t for a moment,    it syncopate like a sc it recover at last. But instead of o trag remedies o ients,    mad error. It rue: all    ty-eigood uro Fermina Daza, t and    eased his sce.

        For ter serrupted ernoon reading to ask o look at    indication t     knorutime t been a good city for keepis. Soon after t elepalled, several marriages t seemed stable royed by anonymous tale-bearing calls, and a number o elep oo muc to alloempt at anonymous betrayal by telep imagine anyone daring to try it under    e slipped uive, not only because it guaray of sender and receiver, but be-cause its time-ry permitted oo attribute to it some kind of metapion to the designs of Divine Providence.

        Jealousy ed in publid until no rue--t c lig    ker as    in ty. So t after looking at o    to loiense of being lost among t, meandering rivers of Alca Island until , said notossed everyto t in no par-ticular ave instrus in tc to the bedroom.

        t to go to Miss Lync five o’clo ternoon. ternal love, t    ed interruptions, t of love er. t tiara in a little box    t it ion and    to , no message, noting. Dr. Urbino never sa, and God alone kears o sory door in order to survive te catastrop five o’clock, instead of going to see    of trition before ook union,    broken but    peace.

        t nigion, as ed for Fermina Daza tter litany of abbing pains, o ernoon, toms of secret love, o tell someone or die, or else tell trutained ified ic rituals of love. Seo tention, but    looking at    saying anyticle of clot ure or c migray    and tossed it into t for dirty clot find t it omorro doo pray before tar in tal of    o die.” S even blink when she replied.

        “t ,” sh have some peace.”

        Years before, during ty of dying, and sal reply. Dr. Urbino attributed it to tural edness of inue revolving around t t time    kno sed a barrier of o     terrible one of all, the fear of losing him.

        t nig, and tainty alarmed    t    s cry easily for any affli of body or soul. S s ins in error of culpability, and t dare to sole    it    o tell    t afternoon,    by ts, forever, even from his memory.

        Fatigue overcame es.        g. Sometive o : t t ed at ttom of irred up by torment of ed to t    once. Selling    sry to sleep: it er t    race e in    leness.

        “I    to know who she is,” she said.

        And told ing t of t so firm tails. But s, of course, so t as ain, not imid sobs but    salty tears t ran do    true, and gro at tion, and s curses at tten society t did not ate to trample on one’s urbable even old     afternoon, s t tue inspired by God. t note in to over-look    mis o be privy to an intimacy t    only    han she could bear.

        “You migold a snake c,” she said.

        For        of gossip even before ion t tolerable tice caused by y. And    of all, damn it: ed ta.” But by t oo late for accuracy: she had finished.

        “Just as bad,” sand: it he smell of a blaan.”

        t seven o’clo t to San Juan de la aga runk, in ter, illa to avoid questions for    at tual agreement, follo so Cousin ime as so to a final decision. it kno as a trip sen put off and t ted o make for a long time. Dr. Urbined matters so t no one in ion, and    so    if Florentino Ariza could find no clue to Fermina Daza’s disappeara    t because o iigate. s t s over    s certain t her rage would never end.

        o learn very soon t ic de-cision    so muc of rese as of nostalgia. After turned several times to Europe, despite ten days at sea, and srip ime to enjoy it. So live and t so San Juan de la aga after ted fligo    of redemption in turn to Cousin ter ed. t o al catastrop. So t of revisiting    s -soled her in her unhappiness.

        er in San Juan de la aga, s reserves of er and reized toe all to trary. tary ander of ty, o leave for San Pedro Alejandrino, o visit in order to see for    true, t tor oernoon. Sreets t seemed more like beacu-guese, s of arms carved over trand bronze jalousies at tant, sad piano exercises t ly married motaugo ters of ted    mer the salons.

        Sed plaza, rees grorate, tops and tood, train to San Pedro Alejandrino, and on t to t d most beautiful of tone, and its great monastery door, and ter . S of Aunt Escolástica, for erary clotrees in ttle park, as s days at t s reize t to be sy, and around treet lined ook tas in t    town.

        illa, not for fear of being reized in a place ation to tery, bloating in tary ander of ty told ’s c ering corpses, but sed t none of t time of the balloon.

        “t is true,” said thods.”

        tance from San Juan de la aga to tation of San Pedro Alejandrino    train took tire day to make trip because to please stop so tretcrolling across t rusains, and rain to milk tures. Fermina Daza errified ion, and s ime to marvel at tamarinds    t as t only for so glorious a man but even for a seven-mont.

        Anotor,    trut try    to die on t s    for t of trip sook no pleasure in trip, as so do, but in-stead salgia. In till keep t. Sours around dise, ss from ting pits, ts of gu could just as illa so t s as it once had been.

        One niger so muc, s Cousin ing at t fainted: it    and old, burdeill loved     a soldier living on    of spite and ra. But sill ter just a fery living and pleasant memories, but s leave t to go to Mass on Sundays ors of long ago, co iful,    tanding in oxcarts and singing in cil t t gone on rip because s t s, but    s after- y, but only as s before shere.

        Dr. Juvenal Urbino made to e for er receiving a report from t ay    by o return but by y to find a    notifying er aers     algia: nocuffed eggplant ing of guns into te steps in tyard and the man’s voice:

        “It is better to arrive in time to be invited.”

        S s time to t it, s s yet bat t o prepare    telling o lunc s     . But s s siness so calm , and    to meet t doe’s gait, tle, and grateful to e for t not as pliant as , of course, because so leave    sermio make ter suffering t had ended her life.

        Almost ter t t tránsito Ariza ino Ariza    been impressed in any special ion of moving pic-tures, but Leona Cassiani took ing, to tacular opening of Cabiria, ion ten by t Gabriele D’Annunzio. t open-air patio of Don Galileo Date, ars more t lovemaking on to overflo public. Leona Cassiani fol-lo    in ino Ariza, on tedium of t o read s:

        “My God, than sorrow!”

        t     yet beeablis one could or mur-muring like rain. Florentino Ariza did not t ireme circumstances, but noy fatantly ernoon    e batil I tell you to.”

        sting in t be to able ect ead of imagining tack by t mont a radiant and joyful age, unic    cter deta torical disasters t    o turn around to see ion. ed in t of almonds t came ing back to    being, and o kno before tation t o the one he loved so much.

        s    on, ed for to stand up. tood, unurned around in a distracted o o one anot to exgs even if one of t ed to. First Juvenal Urbino greeted Leona Cassiani, ry. Fermina Daza smiled at botesy, only courtesy, but in a en, rodu. Leona Cassiani re-spoa grace. But Florentino Ariza did not knoo do, because ed at t of her.

        Serrible disease t ion and slenderness of ter days, but it    t t t ones.     it    acles iful lae eyes    ime of ligino Ariza saer, and    silla and     o take o    t, and eve of tep and almost tripped on tairs at the door.

        Florentino Ariza ive t steps of age. Even as a young man errupt ry in to observe elderly couples , and t eg t Dr. Juvenal Urbino’s time of life, t nig tumnal yout gray ty aive, above all in to clutc t to trip over their own shadows.

        A feer,    ing aging in body and soul, and t o lead ty, o    t teps, not t treet, t t difficulty o cross treet as if it    of life’s rivers. Florentino Ariza ed so often in t mirror t    ing age    day, and only on t day, o renounce his hope of Fermina Daza.

        ting frigead of driving Leona Cassiani in ty, eps ees. From time to time, fragments of fugitive voices escaped tasmal acoustid t fragrance of jasmine is. Once again Florentino Ariza o summon all rengt to reveal to Leona Cassiani his repressed love for Fermina Daza.

        togeteps, loving eacs, s t une. A ma ts of Storeet, just    ino Ariza asked Leona Cassiani to invite    ime    to a time, ten years before, so    to stay forever.”    go in. But o break ered him in and asked for no promises.

        t ed it, in tuary of a love t inguis    renou of s Florentino Ariza    imes until very late at nigributed so muco t o sider it    t    ure s    t so many less co perpetuate tainty t    did nnize y of oblivion,    remember me anymore.” But s if     easy, because cats do not remember anyone.

        Leaning back as t close toget t    oernoon    in adjat offices, and until no talked, Florentino Ariza put o caress le touc stop    s respo even esy’s sake. Only o go furtory he palm.

        “Beime ago t you are not the man I am looking for.”

        ill very young, a strong, able man y, ripped antaneous and freic love to s and bruises, sed t man to stay forever so t s seen     s time on, so anyone    fello on Droty, oober fifteent about    eleven at nigell    out of , and s to so many people t sino Ariza ory as many times as    sailing a. By trut    ting for, and o kno.

        “Bravo, lionlady,” . “e iger.”

        It    t came to a nig tives    illed in    Fermina Daza al and as a sequence mig    ter, by ion ook aoion t    s be to die first. It    fearful kind of prese, because it y.

        ting, of    on tions of sleepless nig t all ts in to spire against o a dangerous assignation,    error of     a sound, but ed at t moment for fear of causing a det married    o t t oed for from oury to t    a sigment, mig unity to lead reet full of lunar grave mounds and beds of o y.

        trut by tandards of ime, Florentino Ariza o old age. y-six    no man of time    s ill    i over a rebuff received in tury. It ime for being young: tyle of dress for eac tyle of old age began soon after adolesce, and lasted until the grave.

        More t ter of social dignity. table ure spectacles, and a ick er ty. Fo past ty-ternal spinsters: t be    iion to t iion to time left to they died.

        Florentino Ariza, on temerity, even t e o look like an old man from time    first it ter of y. tránsito Ariza pulled apart and toget o discard, so t    to primary scs t dragged on t doerial s t came doton batting on to make tly and coarse as hing.

        It u after so mucal instability because of so many superimposed civil andards ive tions in to class from tured at gunpoint in in-clusive battles, and carrying tion    ts. t ea teeas, and one of tudent at La Salle Academy and a retired el in tia, s and killed Brota, Prefect of ty, because ec God ive Party.

        On t ruined families . Among so many oddities inating in so many places, Florentino Ariza ainly among t, but not to t of attrag uention. t ted to reet: “ more.” In a, ty became, from t time on and for t of    suited to iature and solemn cer.

        ed to    important position in to order in tyle as t C’s venerable age of ty-t Florentino Ariza aler of fact, tongued Brígida Zuleta, a brief love old    day t ster    y years younger , first because aste    allo ty no one kneake    pants and sailor    out of t again. On t escape tion of old age current in    o be expected t    ter    of panic t deatcory in his fierce war of love.

        Until t time est battle, fougoot    glory,    baldness. From t    angled in    o a orments ot be imagined by t suffer truggled for years. t a pomade or lotion    try, a belief    accept, a sacrifice    endure, in order to defend every inc t devastation. ural informa-tion in tol Almanac because    t relationsing cycles.    totally bald barber     quarter. to demonstrate t in fact ile     ed by several Antillean police forces for raping novices, and aken away in s.

        By tino Ariza    out every advertisement -ing bald ed tures of t as bald as a melon and ter using ter six years ried oion to plementary treat-ments t appeared on ttles, and all t ique because it emitted a p glo resort o all t t and to all tal potions sold in t by time    onsure of a saint.

        In try, an Italian ted y. t a fortune, and turer took no responsibility after t t bald men o temptation. Florentino Ariza . ried on a    o     and on end     accept tion     t    ray. One day, one of tino Ariza’s , to ter of tevedores, and gave he head.

        “ed.

        t nig ty-eigrands left at emples and t off, and    iny of total baldness. Every m before    only    tubble o reappear, and    everyttom. Until t remove    even in tion of naked seemed io    ributed to it tues t    and sed as not tasies of bald men. Later e in tom of bing long    on t all t even so, io yle, even after tartarita, trao fashion.

        teet result from a natural calamity but from ti dentist e a simple iion by drastic means. error of ted Florentino Ariza from visiting a dentist, despite ant tootil t of insolable moaning from t to o be time, s of    o abscesses.

        Uncle Leo XII sent o Dr. Francis Adonay, a black giant in gaiters and jodraveled ts e dental equipment t eraveling salesman of terror in t one glan    Florentino Ariza o eetracted in order to protees. In trast to baldness, treatment caused    all, except for ural fear of a bloodbat a disturb    because one of    ceet ttering by table, and sed because it oot ormented    as mucy as t did not seem to tack by old age, because    despite tter breatted    resistao t forceps of Dr. Adonay, and oicism of a pack mule.

        Uncle Leo XII atteo tails of tion as if it    in false teet trips along t of o. One nig trao t of Gamarra,    ures of tan romanza from tain’s balustrade.    lost t. In tails of tors, terror of tried to leap onto dry land, but o eries eet of    breato ter.

        t o    t t of tenerife    fit. But    to explain to tain    t pair, Uncle Leo XII filled    o    breatried tors t c    of false teeto t as well.

        From t spare sets of teet s. Moreover,    ra pair in a coug    in , because rying to eat pork crags at a piic. Fearing t    be tim of similar unpleasant surprises, Uncle Leo XII told Dr. Adonay to make s rigart: one of cerials for daily use at t molar t    a touc last, on a Palm Sunday ringing ino Ariza returo treet ity,    smile giving    someone else aken he world.

        t time t ino Ariza    alone in    ed ioe t t t gave treet its name made ooo many eyes beains. But t to make Fermina Daza, and no o Fermina Daza,    Florentino Ariza preferred to lose a good many opportunities during    fruitful years rather loves.

        to une, every step    ne privileges, and one of t practical y of using t nigy of tc Vice President, o one of tting on a desk cride    ared at errified    sign of s like your dad!” And before o tance:

        “And you, Se?orita, feel free to carry on. I swear by my    I    seen your face.”

        tter    mentioned again, but t o ino Ariza’s offionday tris burst in to install a rotating fan on to alled a lo t it could be bolted from ters took measurements    saying o see if tc    oo big for the doors.

        t t i did not seem uional, and to all ests: “Orders from tino Ariza never kne of interference o ruto    Uncle Leo XII    from t men, and tacle to naming    distress.

        Unlike able marriage of sixty years’ duration, and    o prepare all of to    by a series of ces t    t no one believed in real life, er to positions of auty, and er ion o die    ty meters ed as true tale t Florentino Ariza, er appearand hose ces.

        or’s orders forced o retirement, Florentino Ariza began, o sacrifie of o ry retreat in one of ty’s first automobiles,    ed t driver. talked for many o tation from le, one could see ternoon. It    for Florentino Ariza and o talk about anytion, and it still ernoons ant preoccupations    river navigation not pass into trepreneurs from terior ions to European corporations. “t,”    , t back to tio ical vi t o repeat even    to t.

        “I am almost one ion of tars in t I    seen anyt in try,” itutions, ne ill in ial times.”

        to tributed all evils to t ty-tino Ariza, ics s of te, listeo t and tiresome spees to t er o pany policy. In opposition to    t tbacks in river navigation, aler, could be remedied only by a voluntary renunciation of t monopoly t tional gress ed to ty-nine years and a day. ested: “My namesake Leona    t those ideas in your head.”

        But t ino Ariza based elligence royed by excessive personal ambition.    t to privileges but to tiitments racted for, antamount to y for tion: aken ing ty of t installations, tes on land, transportation. Besides,    opposi-tion of President Simón Bolívar er.

        Most of es viees as if trimonial arguments, in ural to t because, as it oo easy to say, old age    because renoung t o ories of a oric battle t imes, against po so tigs t no one could tou. But suddenly, ive afternoons on tation, Uncle Leo XII agreed to renouenarian privilege, on tion t it not take place before h.

        It o sult    lose a single ri from a of y, but o keep anyone from seeing    pity emplation of tual sno to a table    a pot of black coffee    for er    taies of false teet to receive visitors.    so remote t it aed river navigation. But ill opic of versatio:    Florentino Ariza marry. o imes, and alhe same way:

        “If I y years younger,”    imagine a better wife.”

        Florentino Ariza trembled at trated at t moment by tance. o renounce everyt all aunately, Uncle Leo XII did not insist. urned he pany.

        Six monter, by unanimous agreement, Florentino Ariza    of tors and General Manager of ter toast on took over t, tirement excused    getting up from t seemed more like an elegy.    ial events. t    tor urbaco oe all tacles t destiny erposed, a suc-cessor    last, trying to undramatize the drama, he cluded:

        “tration I carry a of singing at so many funerals except my own.”

        It goes    saying t to close ta” from tosca.    a capella, ill steady. Florentino Ariza     only in t tremor in    t    everyt in life, s only because of ermination to be alive and in good    t iny in the shadow of Fermina Daza.

        apanied o ty Leona Cassiani gave for    nig in teries, ted over till laid t, t. Deprived of oo be    time,    times and at    moments, ained some link, no matter less lovers of so many years:    track of their lives.

        And so t nig one,     day. o close o see    . Several times in to set out in searoain of finding ime, because of a real difficulty at t minute or because of an ill-timed failure of rip poned just as t to raise t o do h Fermina Daza.

        , treet of indo ránsito Ariza and not anding of ed enougendero pensate for Fermina Daza despite    sions of an alleycat, rengtenderness, and t t boto iy. Still, tio be itent lovers for almost ty years, to teers’ motto: Unfait not disloyal. Sino Ariza assumed any responsibility: he funeral.

        re, t of till alive, tons from    o stay in o cut off , so t o no one else even if    belong to her.

        ep loved of to teag instruments at t moonlit nig roof of    beautiful suites in all musi a cello    nigs in t ángeles Alfaro left as sender sex and    fle remained of    roofs tered faree ary sad dove on tic Festival. itino Ariza learned    realizing it: t one    be in love    time, feel t betray any of t of to     copious tears at ting. But as soon as the memory of Fermina Daza once again occupied all his space.

        side    t in t    go in: someoe over sucails o t, s s    a business manager. In ine courtesan ers rious as t on    rue,    President Rafael Reyes, after only a ments in ty, granted ime pension for distinguiso try of Finance, ed s of pleasure as far as    duct     aplices gave e t to lose in a sdal than she did.

        For ino Ariza ed ed    free of c take and    o    il eo buy somet ributed a distinctive sensuality to tipa-tion, ogeternoons as tried to create even more love heir love.

        a stroke of good fortu among so many ers, taste a drop of bitterness ing senile verses of sucrageous obsity t to isolate    s drive t of took over plete responsibility for time or desire to attempt to replace Fermina Daza    stle by little o tine of visiting tablisecost Sunday urned fourteen and    no one else until to make h love.

        o Padre, entrusted by o Florentino Ariza as ive. t    sco study sedary education, ate and tle tin trunk as small as a doll’s, and from t s, e siment t to take many Sunday siestas togetill a ceetary sc    ao be, and ivated urdays at te afternoons, and iouteness of a kind grandfatoe: to    once s into floed udies, for s t s lose t on    sered i in ter so many years of calculated loves, torative perversion.

        t. S so learn about life u so be    feared being in ified e a resembla    based only on tamed y and uable cer. Moreover, t,    for ely erased from    so love    ss. Sook drastic precautions against actal pregnancy. After ers, t ternoons.

        Siake    of t beloo times top if ternoon , sunny and drive along t and ser,    of    t blo off. Someone old    to spend more time    to eat anytasted, and not to put oo close to agious. But s care. t to reme differen them beyond all suspi.

        t made love oecost Sunday oll at four o’clock. Florentino Ariza o overe ting of . In ual of tolling bells o t. But after our last    at turn of tury, tive regime solidated its ial s, and funeral rites became so expe only t could pay for te de Luna died, bells all over tolled unceasingly for nine days and nine nig t olling of bells for t illustrious of tino Ariza    four o’clo ternoon on a Pe Sunday,    as if ed by a g from    youto h nancy as she was leaving high Mass.

        “Damn,”    must be a very big fis thedral bells.”

        América Vicu?a, pletely naked,    awakened.

        “It must be for Pe,” she said.

        Florentino Ariza    in matters pertaining to t goo Mass again since augelegrap ain any definite    t ringing for Pe. ty, t ain, and t is o inform    Jeremia-Amrapudio. Altino Ariza    an intimate friend of o many oted o to t    t tolling for Jeremia-Amour,    unbeliever and a itted anard who had, more-over, died by his own hand.

        “No,” olling like t must be fovernor at least.”

        América Vicu?a,    ing in t of ao t deater lua, bot    t tin roof. Florentino Ariza loved    ain ime she finished sedary school.

        ts s of paint, as s, but at four o’clo ternoon, even ri    e s be-cause it reflected off tal roof. It    so muo Ariza    beext to tle refuge for     to sleep ts of tevedores, and t t was a Sunday paradise.

        to be togetecost until so return to sces before t tolling of tino Ariza of o attend t-Amour, a, as alo tie t malice, and so    ion: after t enters t areated eacy of a    t not for to say to eacher.

        t ted dock ts boilers damped. try    rains of t transparent air and to belong to a more benevolent mrief, even if one did not knoino Ariza and t doo tio of saltpeter, s and oted irons from trade. tomobile ing for t aeering tled in ts. tomobile turned around be on Las ánimas Bay,    of t. Florentino Ariza    t be for Jeremia-Amour, but tent tolling filled s.    ing into olled.

        “It’s for t doctor ee,” said t’s his name?”

        Florentino Ariza did not o old antaneous    believe    it    a-qualified doc-tor in ty, and one of its illustrious men for many otori-ous reasons,    ty-one, o catc.

        All t Florentino Ariza . But no it    feel triumpen in ead, error: tastic realiza-tion t it could just as ting beside omobile t jolted along treets, América Vicu?a ter. Florentino Ariza grasped h his ie.

        “Oy years to tell you about it.”

        Jeremia-Amour’s funeral.    t t urday, and old to take o ted by an uproar of automobiles as and a multitude of curious onlookers outside ts of Dr. Lácides Olivella,    of tion, came rus    easy to move i Florentino Ariza mao make o ter bedroom, peered on tiptoe over ted to see    y of deater    taken s for t ill    s on for ty, Fermina Daza rospective aed.

        Florentino Ariza    moment doo t detail sied ely to tuoo muc did not seem very manly to otime, and ed for ted for anyt an instant of discement. t deat last interceded on o repeat ernal fidelity and everlasting love to Fermina Daza on    night of widowhood.

        deny tions of    it less and inappropriate act, one o for fear t tunity ed. al, someten imagined, but fate    t leaving ate of up to prevent it because    t t inies.

        For t t.     s so ernation    in ipation t s to remedies less pleasant ts of old age, emporaries because tacked at time. On ednesday    ter a     seeing ed.

        But    o keep trut t. t alloo t anoto trate on anyting badly and sleeping rying to find t signs t ion. But on Friday erpreted as a noto    everyt    go on: it uro reet of indoer floating in a puddle irance, and on t envelope    oing t so many c c ect turnal per-fume of er tial s told    ter ing for,    a moment’s respite, for over ury.
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