FLORENtINO ARIZA, on t stopped t since Fermina Daza ed    of er a long and troubled love affair fifty-one years, nine mont o keep a run-ning tally, dra o remind    time of tion ránsito Ariza, in one ed reet of indoions ss and s to sell as bandages for tus to steam navigation along the Magdalena River.

        Don Pius V Loayza died ook care of , ure secure, so t Florentino Ariza used only rue parentage ino Ariza o leave scer    to i tal Agency, ters, and notifying t mail s try ihe office door.

        tracted ttention of telegrapor, tario t,    ceremonies in tario t taugelegrapem, and after only a feino Ariza could play by ear like a professional.    Fermina Daza    souger young man in o daest dances ae seal poetry by , and o s. ered doed pomade and eyeglasses for myopia, ion, ake enemas t , ined from    tránsito Ariza took suc t every Sunday it looked nee    lot-teries to determine ime il t Fermina Daza and o an end.

        time oernoon    told o deliver a telegram to someone named Lorenzo Daza,     erior patio, s and a stone fountain er, resembled an abbey cloister. Florentino Ariza    maid uons and bricklayer’s tools lay amoover lime and stacks of t bags, for tiovation. At tio emporary office     very y because    a man h many friends.

        elegram as if it inuation of an ominous dream. Florentino Ariza observed ain firying to break tfelt fear t imes in so many addressees    t telegrams    eg ter reading it ino Ariza tory five reales, letting     o    to do elegrapo treet door, more to keep an eye on o lead the way.

        traced teps along t time Florentino Ariza kness in tio ing a reading lesson. As ting very close toget seemed a strange siger teaco read. erpretation    only in part, because t, not t interrupted, but to see aclysm of love t still    ended ury later.

        All t Florentino Ariza could learn about Lorenzo Daza    er and er soon after t t o stay since    everyter, named Escolástica, y years old, and so    of St. Francis    o a’s rope around    w een years old and her: Fermina.

        It    Lorenzo Daza ion must     least tudying at tation of turies young ladies of society    and ted submissive ed only tudents    family names. But to submit to ties of a neime, and ts doors to all applits iardless of tial dition t timate daug, it    Fermina Daza studied t indication of uation, if not of its social position. tino Ariza, si indicated to    tiful adolest    rict regime soon provided an irremediable difficulty. Uudents, er aunt, a sted no distra.

        It     Florentino Ariza began    life as a solitary er. From seven o’clo t on t tle park, pretending to read a book of verse in trees, until riped uniform, stogs t reaco    to . Sural iness, ep rapid, ing straig     making o gravity. At ruggling to keep up     and rope of St. Francis did not allo opportunity to approao Ariza saimes a day and on Sundays tle by little ues and imaginary ses, and after t o send Fermina Daza a simple en on bote notary’s     it in    for several days, t o    to    e several more pages befoing to bed, so t tter urning into a diary of pliments, inspired by books    because en during he park.

        Searco give ter, ried to make tance of some of tudents at Presentation Academy, but too distant from er muc, it did not seem prudent to let anyone else knoions. Still, o find out t Fermina Daza ed to a Saturday dance a feer ty, and    alloime tter tained more ty pages ten on botino Ariza could no longer e of , and o ránsito Ariza o tears by ters of love, and sried to guide    to deliver t ers of t. t step, so make erest so t ion    take ime to think.

        “But above all,” s person you o    t .”

        Bot, but too late. Iy, on t ant from t and raised o see    nigioelegram,    ion increased erest, because for    t time, tion of telegrap it. So t sino Ariza t time srees in ttle park, alt in no ed il    told here for several weeks.

        t of Mass,     all tings could not be casual. S going to all trouble for me.” For despite ere dud peial , Aunt Escolástict for life and a vocation for plicity,    virtues, and t a maed in -ible emotion in ill safe from even simple curiosity about love, and t Florentino Ariza inspired in ain pity, because it seemed to        told    one o live a long time to kure, and s t in to ch love.

        Aunt Escolástiding and affe for tions . So t tino Ariza imate diversioo pass time. Four times a day, o look    timid, unimpressive senti and o read urees. “t, suppressing er, before    him.

        “Poor t    dare approae day entions are seri-ous, and tter.”

        Foreseeing all kinds of adversities, saugo unicate in sign language, an indispensable strategy in forbidden love. ted, almost cics caused an unfamiliar curiosity in Fermina Daza, but for several mont did not occur to    it could go any furtion and o see    serror because s    t of ’s predis to e true, and in o give o ter just so s it said.

        But    ansrary. t time t Florentino Ariza made o y pages of pliments, so t sio    for t of tion turned into despair as tion approac    be o scs ill unresolved on Cmas Eve,    t    Midnig .

        S dare to turn tirol    t notice ation. But in t    an irresistible po livid face, trified by terror of love. Dismayed by y, s Escolástica’s arm so s fall, and    felt tion on t, and sed ible sign of un-ditional plicity. In tive drums, of colored ligino Ariza il daca tears, dazed by tion t it .

        ta    s ting urees at t ition of t afternoon in to . But Fermina Daza seemed different    tunic    fell from yle, and on    made ino Ariza sat in t o    sat    even respond able glance.

        At first    t trees ion due, pero terminable repairs on t in t folloand t Fermina Daza ernoon at time during tion, and t certainty filled        detey sign of i or reje, but in inct radia enced o persevere. ternoon to put    rees. En-ced by tuous t t tunity, Florentino Ariza crossed treet and stopped in front of Fermina Daza, so close to    ect tc t ify    of ermination t er, and for the same reason.

        “All I ask is t you accept a letter from me,” he said.

        It    t Fermina Daza ed from     o do    lifting    accept it    my fatino Ariza s t voice, et for t of    eady and replied    ation: “Get it.” te is a matter of life a look at    interrupt    ire o pass through.

        “e back every afternoon,” so    until I c.”

        Florentino Ariza did not uand il ttle park, ion: ica    into tood up and t in tino Ariza, e camellia i and stood in front of est moment of my life.” Fermina Daza did not raise o    sed streets in t of the wind.

        “Give it to me,” she said.

        Florentino Ariza eo give y ss e from memory after reading ten, but t    ial:    fidelity and ing love. ook tter out of    pocket and    before troubled embroiderer,    dared to look at rembling in a rified error, and s tter on it, for s admit t siced trembling of    rees, and    on t of t be    notice ime, ino Ariza er in ’s good luck.” S smile and almost snatcter a time    over, se in her posure.

        “Noil I tell you to.”

        After Florentino Ariza saime, old    ite and spent tire nigossing and turning in     for to    letter, ed by diarr, ed and suffered from sudden fainting spells, and errified because ion did not resemble turmoil of love so mucation of o Ariza’s godfati-tioner o Ariza’s fidant ever since    mistress,    first by tient’s dition, because ion of a dying man. But ion revealed t    e feeling    desire to die. All t    of tient and to clude once again t toms of love o calm ted a    in distance, but Floren-tino Ariza longed for just te: to enjoy yrdom.

        tránsito Ariza    for rated by poverty, and sook pleasure in    o keep a at time so enjoy ration.

        “take advantage of it no your whole life.”

        In tal Agency, of course, t agree. Florentino Ariza , and racted t    annoued ted States lantique and carried t-Nazaire. tribu-tion of tests from t if Florentino Ariza did not lose    ario t kept    telegrapook o play t to uand because of t    t along at averns around t,    for to youlemen in tuxedos    to eat fried mullet and ut rice.

        Lotario t    of goi s at telegrapen found illean sd bull-necked, y cap t    out at nigring of bells to look like St. Nic least once a le nigra el for sailors.    Floren-tino Ariza, t tain magisterial deligo initiate o ts of tle birds    best, yle o pay in advance    Florentino Ariza did not accept:    to lose y unless it was for love.

        tel    ter days, and its great marble salons and rooms o plasterboard cubicles ed out as muccalk of busybodies ting needles, of a man s tet    to t room terrified Florentino Ariza. And so Lotario t could never persuade    g cs of European princes.

        As opposed to , Lotario t als of a c t unate defect, because t tarniso go to bed s , stresses of ts gs tremble in fear. tment made of snake venom t inflamed     God er: “It’s pure love.” Many years o pass before Florentino Ariza and t per.    last, at a more advaage of imental education,    time. ts at darate at    to beg fiveness for ts, and tification t    o bed     money. Floren-tino Ariza t t terror alone could induce sucies, but one of tradictory truth.

        “things,” she said, “you do only for love.”

        It    so muts as a fornicator as for    Lotario t    esteemed ts of tel. Florentino Ariza, because    and elusive, also eareem of t arduous period of ing little rooms to read verses and tearful serialized love stories, and    s of dark sing of illness of siesta. At dusk,     to listen to tions of men    t Florentino Ariza    many acts of disloyalty, and even some state secrets,    ts and even local officials fided to t g if t four nautical leagues to tavento Arcer sieentury s cargo of more toory astounded     t again until a feer, rea-sure so t Fermina Daza could bathe in showers of gold.

        Years later, o remember ry really inguisrending to    letter, ransfigured in ternooed in apanying Lotario t on age point in to see unic fluttered in ticles. But erfered    pleasure, for tic music seemed so innocuous pared ate of    tempted to make it more exg zes, and Lotario t found o ask t he choir.

        time    t trán-sito Ariza gres in tio, so t aste of Fermina Daza. It ime er bottle of t traband, and    resist temptation to sample it in order to discover otastes of io drink from ttle until daaverns around t and tared out to sea from tties il at last o unsciousness. tránsito Ariza,    in    improbable     in a cove of tims washed ashore.

        Sook advantage of tus of o reproacy as ed for to ter. S ter t o men of resolute spirit, o face life. Florentino Ariza learoo ránsito Ariza could not ernal, iff felt , ie and celluloid collar, and so a funeral. ’s almost t    ermination le of cologne so te ory together.

        ter a monten broken    to return to ttle park, but    to be seen. Notrees e about ts siesta, and Fermina Daza embroidered    until to cool. Florentino Ariza did not    for t to go into treet ial stride t allo o , not to Fermina Daza.

        “Please be so kind as to leave me alone for a moment ant to tell her.”

        “ impertinence!”    said to    o do    I ot hear.”

        “t say anyto    I    you he sequences.”

        t    tica Daza expected from t, but sood up in alarm because for t time s Florentino Ariza ion of t. So s into to c trees in the doorway.

        Iy, Fermina Daza kle about taciturn suitor ter. S    forever marked by tigma of ake. S    a messenger, as s a ant ure, and s t elegram to ext for seeing    o look at ion one Sunday t s played for everyo terious resources y t    to resist, but s curiosity he many masks of love.

        S explain ter. S reproac to respond plicated    trivial gestures, seemed set raps to uncover . ate of alarm able for fear some slip migray    Escolástica,    ter, attempting to discover a secret code, a magiula eeers of its fifty-eigell    all s sood on first reading, ore open tter, and found only a per-fumed note ihtened her.

        At first s even t seriously t so respond, but tter    t to avoid it. Mean of s, so find    Florentino Ariza erest to alloress tle park at tting t it o return     anyone, ions t , ing o be art, ion t    , so t on ternoon eps on ttle park it    for    to t anotrick of ion. But     from o overe ried to dodge trut knoino Ariza    leapt across an abyss only to be sh such excuses.

        “If you accepted tter,” o    sesy not to ans.”

        t rol, begged    ion. And    Friday in February, t Escolástica    to telegrapo ask    cost to send a telegram to Piedras de Moler, a village t did not even appear on t of places served by telegrapino Ariza to attend    et a breviary covered in lizard skin, leaving it on ter, and in it ttes. Delirious ino Ariza spent t of ternooing roses and readiter by letter, over and ain, and te, and by midnig so many times and en so many roses t o o sor oil.

        It o devastating love.    t t for letters ie unity to speak to eac t time until erated ermination a ury later, tunity to be alone or to talk of t during t t one day    by t t e to eacime te til Aunt Escolástica became frigensity of t so ignite.

        After t letter t so telegrap iny, s daily exc appeared to be casual enters o, but s o permit a versation, no matter ing it migill, after t    tim of a girlis    first, and t ened by trut Escolástica Daza    except y, and s yranniature would never five sucrayal of his fidence.

        But ime for t    to cause    so nurture ever sied o use a strategy t alloer in some e from to t letter se to Florentino Ariza o find ino Ariza did t of ts in Aunt Escolástica’s sce ransferred to baptisteries in crees, and -nies in ruined ial fortresses. Sometimes tters orn by adversity, and some    for a variety of ot to be in toucher again.

        Florentino Ariza e every nigter by letter, ions sters became more discursive and more lunatic tried to imitate e poets from t t time , became ed for o    your brains,” sed at    roosters cro.” S remember ever ate of unbridled passion. But tention to imes    to t , er leaving tter in t Fermina Daza    on o scco fill ebook o take notes in class. But t only due to ed time and taken by surprise, it    caused ters to avoid emotional pitfalls and fio relating ts of ilitarian style of a ship’s log.

        Iy tracted letters, inteo keep t putting ino Ariza buro i    urist’s verses inscribed    of a pin on camellia petals. It o enclose a lock of ter, but ire strand of Fermina Daza’s braid.    last to take oep furt time on so send ioterflies, timeter of St. Peter Clavier’s ,    a price far beyond t,    any art: a solo violin    of tals from s stolen from aritic to e ters, for ions ural sces, but s dare believe t Florentino Ariza was capable of such imprudence.

        t m at breakfast Lorenzo Daza could not tain y--first because    kno iention ened,    determine    Escolástica,    took ated t sains t tary violinist anding on t in a a single piece ification of severed relations. In t day’s letter Floren-tino Ariza firmed t    z, and t it bore t: “t play it in t on moonlit nig sen    fear in s ery, exposed to t urkey buzzards dozed and tural reso-nance. Later ion of tain t    o.

        In August of t year a ing try for over ury, teo spread, and t imposed martial la. Alturbances roops ted all kinds of retaliatory abuses, Florentino Ariza    ate of tary patrol sur-prised urbed tity of tions. By some miracle ion after    messages in to ters.

        “ tino Ariza. “I’m not a poor lover.”

        For ts     y of ivity, and even in till t y, and perry, whe sake of love.

        tic correspondeer of only one paragrapo Fermina Daza. On several occasions during t e camellia, but surn it to    letter so t    t so tinue ing to     t. trut saken t o o sider it as a crossroads in iny. But ime by tri, sold    Escolástica, y and o decide e.

        “tell er, because    of your life if you say no.”

        Fermina Daza,    sime to t over. First sill not replied, se camellia again, not alone in t ory notification t t o    same afternoon it ino Ariza rip of paper, torn from tebook, on    to make me eat eggplant.

        Florentino Ariza    prepared for t ans    spoken to    en-tion to marry, tránsito Ariza iations for renting tire il t time, sory structure dating from teentury, it obaonopoly ed under Spaniss ruined o it out in bits and pieces because t o main-tain it. It ion fag treet, obacco sion at tio, able t t tenants used in on for o Ariza occupied t se,    and t preserved, alt .

        tions store obacco sreet, and to one side oreroom,    for ventilation, o Ariza slept. to took up    ition. In it able and four g and ing, and it    Florentino Ariza    find ing. It    too small for a t of all a young lady from tation of tored a il it les    to bed    t. So tránsito Ariza o let io, and in ex for five years.

        So do so. In addition to tions store and tatic rags, ele made up of ted erest rates for tion. Ladies    trao tions ss, and as teo buy erie trimmings, t glittering ors of t para-dise.

        tránsito Ariza rescued ties ion for t many of t mrateful for ten years sen redeemed and tearfully pa time o marry, ts, verted into gold, lay s and discovered not only t sake to keep ted anding for five years, but t tle more luck s, before s as First Assistant at telegrapario t ed o    to direct telegrapism, o do the following year.

        So tical side of till, tránsito Ariza t t tions . t o find out    no doubt ing ain information as to ity and liveli t be a long one so t to kno trictest reserve be maintained until bot very certain of tions. Sed t until tino Ariza agreed to absolute secreot only for    because of ticism of er. o t its terms seemed un-realistic to ury of indepe life tion    had a single day of civil peace.

        “e’ll groing,” he said.

        itioner, aking part in tion, did not believe t tacle.    truggles of t barefoot sol-diers .

        “tains,” ies    s.”

        In any case, tails of t tled in tters during t follo Escolástica, accepted botension and tion of absolute secrecy, and suggested t Florentino Ariza ask for mas vacation. ime came t o be formalized, depending on tained from ime, tio e to eac free of turmoil t before, and tters teoie t seemed appropriate to urbed their dreams.

        Florentino Ariza’s life ed lt in    Lotario t rouble    assistant. By t time elegrapism ed ime to to t to play t tra el. It ime before Florentino Ariza, realized t Lotario t’s influen to t t ablis as .    it gradu-ally    t for tle man    so kind t no one uood     least it seemed t o Florentino Ariza , t    use of a room in tel, not only to resolve problems of to do so, but so t     place for ters. And as til t,    more time t tránsito Ariza saw o ches.

        Reading iable vice. Ever since saugo read,    rated books by Nordic autories for    reality    and most perverse t one could read at any age. ino Ariza e t literary evenings at sc y    alleviate terror trary, it became acute. So t ry, by parison it ránsito Ariza boug to t meritorious of ts. But ins: ever came    e, ae ill could not judge    in all t o    o prose, and in verse     even intending to after tter rered trending, them.

        t letters to Fermina Daza, ts taken ers tinued in t vein until real life obliged o    ters more muac time o tearful serialized novels and oto cry s by local poets t avos eac at time o recite from memory t exquisite Castiliary of t fell into    fell, so t long after t love, o last ty volumes of treasury, te catalogue of translation, and t    Don Vite Blasco Ibá?ez publiseo colle.

        In a, ures in tra el    limited to reading and posing feveristers but also included iation into ts of loveless love. Life in ter noon,    er aries on ts of ty, s. Many displayed in ty traces of t: scars of ks in tarbursts of guns s of love, Caesareaions seate fruits of youtook off t in so t feel different in t paradise of nudity. Eace better tino Ariza a t lasted until dusk, o borrooot eaced t out to    t prey of t. t o s    paying.

        Sino Ariza felt more at ease, because it    t     a older iful silvery    did not participate in ted life of tal respect for ure s aken er enjoying ime, abandoned o e. e tigma, se old and aloers argued over    s tter place to live t el of    room ino Ariza, ino Ariza, for , developed so mu for    ernoons in versation    ss into    o reveal as to her.

        If    given in to temptations at ainly    succumb no srotino Ariza lived    it did not occur to o go any furt demonstrated ty of ermination. Oernoon at six o’clock,    evening’s ts, tel came into    ime, like a fully dressed pe surrounded by glorious nakedness.    feeling    for traso tino Ariza lay reading, and as al to disturb o t a ender    it searc it finding,    it unbuttoning rousers o read until    bear it any longer and o move    of the way.

        S t ry to sleep s. t o tell , because s t prostitution did not mean going to bed for money but going to bed ranger. S because tures but because ser t.

        Until t time s a sense ency, a     despair, but life in t roue. So    six in ternoon, and s t going t, pig up -doms, cs. It    to imagi me after love. t vomit and tears, o    t many enigmas of intimacy: puddles of blood, patc, glass eyes, gold ceets ters, business letters, doleters--all kinds of letters. Some came back for tems t, but most ario t kept t t sooner or later t ter days, s tten be-longings, would bee a museum of love.

        t s s, t by dao go to bed    beggar s o,    sed ensions and no questions. tino Ariza, young, , and    a    s    like     y for Fermina Daza, and t in t could turn him from his purpose.

        t    for formalizing t, elegrap seven o’clod asked for    yet arrived, Lorenzo Daza ed on til ten minutes after eigs noble opal stone from one fio anotino Ariza came in, elegram, and ook he arm.

        “e o talk for five minutes, man to man.”

        Florentino Ariza, as green as a corpse, let    prepared for ting, because Fermina Daza    fouo    on turday, Sister Franca de la Luz, Superior of tation of to tealt, and spying on tudents over t Fermina Daza ending to take notes in ebook ter. Acc to t error    summons to tory, wrig.

        Fermina Daza, e fortitude, fessed to tter, but refused to reveal tity of    s and refused again before tribunal of t of expulsion. il te sanctuary, and in ttom of runk s of tters ing. ture    Lorenzo Daza could not believe--not t ever--t er kne    lover except t elegrapor and t he violin.

        Certain t sucricate relationsandable only y rant    of appeal, but so San Juan de la aga. Fermina Daza never found relief from    memory of    on ternoon tle park, carrying all t ser’s sleeping mat and enoug sc.

        As soon as sy, Fermina Daza began a sear from everyone race of il almost ty years later    aken a long time to pass t ser of God leprosarium. Lorenzo Daza did not foresee ty er    to t punis of    Escolástica, o eat or drink, and    o open t s and ted pleading, een years old again.

        ried to seduce tery. ried to make and t love at ried to vince o send back tters aurn to t    to or. But it alking to a corpse. Defeated,    last lost emper at lund blasp to explode, s t ko ,    dramatics but eady    t    dare to c alking for five minutes, man to man, art , but o    under .

        Florentino Ariza still    recovered ed o sit on terrace. tomers at t iles in ts cy stained-glass ill upside doables. Florentino Ariza en seen Lorenzo Daza gambling and drinking cask urians from t,    otanding    o do ality of love, en    o er, ting t no all because it inies forever.

        e, not only because Fermina Daza ters of ormy cer, but because ed t    table. Everyt estimony to crudeness: ic speeg. rait,    time     as er.     doe. Florentino Ariza    eig ed itude because .

        Lorenzo Daza, in fact, took no more tes to say    -founded Florentino Ariza.    only one goal for o turn er into a great lady. tain for a mule trader e and ion as a    so muc a mule driver’s cigar and lamented: “t t of une    none of ermination as terest days of the fields in ruins.

        Alter ation in iny, sic aplice. Selligent a    ty t    t Escolástica.    in gold.” er finis marks in every subjed ion at graduation, ood t San Juan de la aga oo narrous ay to ty and its moten glories, ill y of being reborn tunate marriage. tino Ariza acle in    plan. “So I o make a request of you,” said Lorenzo Daza. te, pulled on it and drehen cluded in a sorrowful voice:

        “Get out of our way.”

        Florentino Ariza eo te, and    t    even ask    o say o speak. But    say would promise iny.

        “o her?” he asked.

        “t doesn’t    you,” said Lorenzo Daza.

        “I ask you tion,” said Florentino Ariza, “because it seems to me t so decide.”

        “None of t,” said Lorenzo Daza. “tter for men and it will be decided by men.”

        one ening, and a er    do a nearby table turo look at tino Ariza spoke in a most tenuous voice, but    imperious resolution of which he was capable:

        “Be t as it may, I ot ans knorayal.”

        t eye spun in its orbit and stayed ted toside. oo, lowered his voice.

        “Don’t force me to s you,” he said.

        Florentino Ariza felt estines filling     tremble because    ed by t.

        “S me,” . “ter glory to die for love.”

        Lorenzo Daza o look at , to see ed eye.    pronou, one by one:

        “Son of a bitch!”

        t same     all, but burst into aed o pack. So our deatened by a respo seemed too close to trutried to face    ook off    s ed it around , and    table    resou. Fermina Daza k and occasion tras and a runks ain t trip from ter to Florentino Ariza on a s torn from toilet paper. t off ire braid at ticle scissors, rolled it inside a velvet box embroidered    it along ter.

        It ed trip. t stage along ted eleven days, during upefied by tal October rains and almost alrified by to a ravine s rider, dragging along tire line, and tied to one anotio rebound aloer, and tio resound for years and years in t in turies-long instant of til terruis ttom, s t of u    t beeo thers as well.

        It    time s terror and un-speakable privations of trip    ter to     been for tainty t sino Ariza again or ion of ters. S said a o rip, and    o    e y to do so, or    to    served rustic food , aed ts stained ion and urine. But more often t t in Indialements, in open-air publii-tories built at tter palm o stay until da sleep t as sed in fear and listened in to t travelers o they could.

        At nig travelers    by da ransformed into a fairground,    different levels and Aruadians from tains sleeping os, and ting cocks in tes, and ting silence of tain dogs, o bark because of tions o Lorenzo Daza,    al up    da ual agony. tenced catfiso tite caused by ually destroyed    of eating, and if s go mad     t tting.

        Anotant terror art of talk of to scattered patrols, and tructed t t accly. ten entered squads of mounted soldiers us by roping ttle on tten about t seemed more legendary t, until one nigrol of unknoion cap-tured travelers from tree tlement. Lorenzo Daza did not even kno aken do    a similar fate. And s oma ive.

        “.”

        “ luck!” said t e. “Long live the King!”

        ter to toed. ts in tios, accordion musi treet ers, riders on ts and bells. A pyrotecle    even notice tivities. tayed in t to receive t troop of youives riding t-bred ire province, and treets of too t of exploding fire to t imes, and it seemed more like ts large, somber rooms and its gallery t faced an orc trees and smelled of    sugare juice.

        No sooner ed in tables tion rooms ives    place to cry. iness, ood ion as soon as soo,    gre so stocks, s believe t sill lived. it he house.

        At midnigors left, ta scattered into sm embers, and Cousin    Fermina Daza a madapollam nigo lie dos a aneous panic of    last ted trating of ook out a manila envelope sealed in ional tele-grap    of o groore teetelegrams in a sears until dawn.

        tarting out on take of telegrapo urn    to    and intricate    Florentino Ariza not only leare itinerary but also establisensive brotelegrapors o t settlement in Cabo de la Vela. to maintain intensive unications ime of ayed til ter,    fra er    last fotten and o return    even aed as tering er so many years    aside tribal prejudices and weled heir own.

        t ed reciliation, alt    been its purpose. As a matter of fact, to     and a boor and rading    seemed too simple to be . Lorenzo Daza played for akes, be-cause    ypical family of tricate tribe of ed men    of dementia tled on ermination of love    seemed as if s for love but to cover over al cloak some premature mistake.

        ty-five years later, Lorenzo Daza did not realize t ransigen er’s love affair ition of , and uo to till, time    in lamentation ime er gained for     castrating calves and taming mules on to spend time roop of female cousins u beautiful and obliging of ty years older to be satisfied ive glances.

        After tay in Valledupar tiains, crossing flo, orial cousins and punctual messages in telegrap ternoon of t been unusual, but rat in tile province every day of t     nige eove in case guests arrived before telegram announg t alrip, guiding    tangled plex-ities of o t    free for t time, s ected, y, y and o live. In ill recall trip t, y of nostalgia, became more and more ret in her memory.

        One nigunned by tion t one could be    only    love, but despite it. tion alarmed s in versatioer to to tune of Cleofás Moscote. Fermina Daza kneing    rappings so rics used for t and clever and    could make tones sig so ed Florentino Ariza sitting urees in ttle park,    find even t in .

        In ter visiting a fortueller ions, Fermina Daza also    to sult acle io a long and    predi gave    ceive of suate destiny ed by t certainty, se. t opped being a certo of iions and illusory promises and became metical and more inte dates, establiso tual determination to marry    sulting anyone, ment so binding t t o attend    adult dan to    to accept    t of ino Ariza ra el t nigario t, elegram on the line.

        It elegrapor from Fonseca, e stations so t Fermina Daza could ask permission to attend tai,    satisfied ive ans asked for proof t in fact it ino Ariza operating telegrap tonistered, ifying pell    I sayed at    adult dail seven in to c to be late for Mass. By tters and telegrams in ttom of runk take distand time asies, but o    ions    s Escolástica, and table modus vivendi t no o ion.

        It    time t Florentino Ariza decided to tell ters of ermination to salvage treasure of t rue, and it o ion one sunlit afternoon o to drive t o figs of t pro-ed miracle. t to put to sleep ed by laimes, but it tio be a on practice- among til it e.

        One of Florentino Ariza’s pastimes during Fermina Daza’s journey o cties as ts filled    time, a gang of boys o toss s into ter so to ttom for t to meet t purpose, and ourist ats ten iates and Europe. Florentino Ariza    t love, but it o    per be able t up tune from t occurred to    afternoon, and from til Fermina Daza’s return almost a year later, ional motive for delirium.

        After talking to en minutes, Euclides, one of ted as    ter exploration. Florentino Ariza did not reveal truterprise, but ies as a diver and navigator.    air to a depty meters, and Euclides told o sail a fisorm ruments otinct, and Euclides told him yes.

        sixteen nautical miles to t of t island in tavento Arcold ing by tars at nigold o do so for to fisold    ional five reales on Sundays. o defend    sold ricks to keep a secret even if t orture , and Euclides told     say no to anyto say yes ion t to doubt ing ting ting fis so t no orut o take along food, a demijoer, an oil lamp, a pack of tallow dles, and a er’s o call for help in case of emergency.

        Euclides    t talker,    could slitanned o suc it o imagine . Florentino Ariza decided on t t    panion for an adventure of sucude, and t furthe following Sunday.

        t of t at dater disposed, Euclides almost naked,    ino Ariza , enebrous , es, t’s bo o pass time during to t Sunday    Euclides or as    oniser of t in t ued detail tory of eag , rance of t    also knoion, Florentino Ariza asked ions and in t Euclides did    suspi about the sunken galleon.

        Ever since    ory of treasure in tra el, Florentino Ariza    ts of galleons.    t t , terra Firma fleet, and er May 1708, obello in Panama    of its forturunks of silver from Peru and Veracruz, and orunks of pearls gated on tadora. During t s ed to popular fiestas, and t of treasure inteo save ty aken aboard: orunks of emeralds from Muzo and Somondod ty million gold s.

        terra Firma fleet    sail from t traveling in a voy    ill incapable of proteg tion from te on s of ted for it in tavento Arc trao t ted record of o escape t ain    t to sink, along ire ding straigerdeck, and t s of the cargo.

        Florentino Ariza e of tion cs of t ermie of t tresses of Boca Cer four ered terior still ers of ters    and t Florentino Ariza felt as if ion in ter. At ter, te of the shipwreck.

        Suffog in ino Ariza indicated to Euclides t ry to dive to a depty meters and bring bayt find at ttom. ter    arnis crossed    touco a t of coral, and just     possibly    anding on ttom, er up to . And so tinued expl deeper sites, alo manta rays, timid squid, til Euclides cluded t ting time.

        “If you don’t tell me    me to find, I don’t kno,” he said.

        But    tell o    ake off    o see t ot Florentino Ariza al God o look at to sernoon greurned cold and damp, and it gretle    to navigate by to find t. Before tered te o liner from France passed very close to ts lig trailed a eew and boiled cauliflower.

        ted tio e tino Ariza    decided to s ire searautical leagues to t of t Florentino Ariza ernoon out at sea, Euclides spent siderable time dotom and ted so muc o s o reac because Florentino Ariza could not ro closer to    last ook t of he prize for his perseverance.

        ed ting t Florentino Ariza promised    o ser as possible just so     in t spot, only eigers do it o even calculate tensive a you could not see to t t surprising t none of t in tion as t till intact, and t ttom, for it seemed as if time, so t till illumined by t was surday, June 9, w down.

        ,    t oo distinguiss name could be seen on tters, but it    damaged by Englisillery. opus inside, more turies old, acles emerged to sue roy to free tle and floating sidele, and t if    dived doo ts treasure, it was because    .

        t    mentioreasure to Fermina Daza in a letter    to Fonseca a s ory of to    many times from Lorenzo Daza, ime and morying to vince a pany of German divers to join reasure. erprise if several members of tory    vied by some brigand of a viceroy to    of treasures of t t a dept ty claimed by Florentino Ariza. But somed to ic excesses t sed ture of t successful. Still, o receive otters ill more fantastic details, ten o fess to     must    his mind.

        During time Euclides ale t it ion of playing tered amid t of finang a major enterprise to salvage ty sreasure. t o er ino Ariza asked ure to a successful clusion. All so do e tal settings and look at t t to realize t someone aking advantage of    doino Ariza t     seen t, or anywhere else ever again.

        tino Ariza salvaged from t disaster er of t    sea took t time on ernoons to talk to t ter t t    survived tino Ariza learo feed t rical energy came to us. o direct t and augment it    do so, ayed to keep c at sea from tos on to se someto house.

        During trict of ty lived, ted from ter o t and to t of talled a spyglass template tavo. it knoy ladies displayed to t of ty in ruffled bats and slippers and s t    as mucreet clottrac-tive besides. tting out in ts, and    cers uer. ty    one could not see anyting, treet, but ts elescope for t of tasting ts of t hem.

        Florentino Ariza    it    because of t additional attra t    after Fermina Daza rejected racted te loves in    to replace         solation for unes. It , so muc for years ried to vince er o . For in te property, and to t to e. Florentino Ariza t t it o make a profit out of poetry, but ime o do it on y of tate.

        None of tale of ty of to alleviate t expected it, urn. And in fact, after a proloay in Rioo e     t benign season on to trade oric sc    find itself blorary o t ed. And t is rapped to    resembled a tavern latri only because of its oppressive narro also because of tilential stenc.

        ti t simes t traps on t; on ts of sed lamentations t sounded like a sigeris bunk added yet anot to error. For t time in almost t aire nig t of Florentino Ariza, ernal minutes one by oil urn. At da s despite ating seasiess, because traps and    to t-o see Florentino Ariza in tumult of t, but all soms srees gilded by t rays of tting boards of t sail t before.

        t of tion: sil yesterday, receiving tors    t s ion t Fermina Daza trembled at t t trip ition, too, for t terrified urning ains in circumstances even more dangerous t time, since a e of Cauca    the Caribbean provinces.

        And so at eig nigo t by troop of noisy relatives sears of fare-minute gifts and packages t did not fit in t ime to sail, ted ts fired into ts from ed because t, and t of flo sea t o sleep soundly    ty straps. S sino Ariza again, and t ook off t s it    ical to t up very early, intrigued by tain coffee ain’s bar, ed by alco    sest    of uainty regarding turn.

        to port. t o sea, and turated by a steady drizzle t soon broke into a full-fledged doanding celegrapino Ariza reized ts sails disened by t crossed Las ánimas Bay and anc t pier. ted until eleven o’clock, rary    uro    four o’clo tio , not taking    carried aso disembark despite torm.    of to abandon so t eiger ted in vain for to stop, a black stevedore in er up to    received Fermina Daza at t s Florentino Ariza did nnize her.

        S arip until so    ondertook task of making it livable again    urn. Fermina Daza yrannized by    tress of an empire of dust and cob could be saved only by trengt intimi-dated because s ed ce t    of turn,    tcable, ed to y to run ty as if it e.

        “I turo you to your life,” he said.

        Seen years beed    every incy s day, after a nig sense of displeasure at being tle park, tatue of tated ino Ariza used to sit    of    but as tain o    of time t o be alive and o o love     in ttle park, as imes despite t s even a premonition, and s    s aside t at once, for in t frenzy of telegrams regarding    returo agree on a o tinue unig once she was home.

        trut Florentino Ariza urned, until telegrapor in Rio t did not arrive trary    during tc dusk on Monday    t moved tinguistle after nine, in t sleep, victim to t urbed    nigránsito Ariza arose    roosters, alarmed t    to tio at midnig yet e baside, and s find o ties, reg love poetry into til daybreak. At eigting uigue, trying to to send o Fermina Daza,    tore .

        It ing, and for t time s , more polisense, y purified by traint of maturity.    instead of letting it    ted over    s simple craces from ino Ariza sat bedazzled until to    nor t. But tible po o er ur in t’s rougones.

        letting cures, ture maturity of t in t time in ural state. y o people and became entangled in s and o run to keep up ed treet in ime and spaot colliding    in teo t    Escolástica, but took ly ure and food but even    excursion ure idealized in her girlhood dreams.

        Stention to ternal love, or to to tried to sell rained alligator. Sailed tour inerary, stopping ive t in t of tered every door cs, s er h flowers.

        In tore t sold imported foods sed t reminded s in t    tasted of licorice, and s turday’s breakfast, as s in aguardiente. In t a ar anise, and one ead juniper, and sears of laugics ser soaps and balsam er, t a toucest perfume from Paris beablet to use after smoking.

        S buying, it is true, but    ation, y t alloo t s time, for s s only for    for able, percale for ts t by daure from bot exquisite of everyto enjoy in ts and s ty until sai, and s tested for t ters.

        Florentino Ariza spied on onis, ripped several times over ts of to o    , and if s see     because s but because of ty manner in ive, so different from ordinary people, t    uand irred by t go mad s of    of er.    missed a single one of ures, not one of tions of er, but    dare approacroying tered tous noise of t    lose t he had craved for so many years.

        Fermina Daza ses t tion t o det young ladies. It tle plaza s draimes, urn scribes in ts and false cuffs first began to sit ting for a poor man’s fee to e all kinds of dots: memoranda of plaints or petition, legal testimony, cards of gratulation or dolence, love letters appropriate to any stage in an affair. t t t its bad reputation but more ret peddlers s to talonian s s t fluttered    tip t als at t unskilled in toms of treet,    t notig whe fierce eleven o’clock sun.

        So t clamor of tcors and ts s for your sie, ut dy is dandy, bro, indifferent to tivated on t by a paper seller ing magiks, red inks    for messages of dolence, p inks for reading in t revealed t. Sed all of tino Ariza and astound , but after several trials stle of gold ink.

        t to tting be six of eag at t make ing: six angel inned milk, six sesame seed bars, six cassava pastries, six ce bars, six blanges, six tidbits of t, six of everytossed to ts ible grad a plete deta tormclouds of flies on tinual    t reverberated in t. Sured black riangle of pineapple speared on tip of a butcook it, s it ed it, and umult, she heard his voice:

        “t the place for a ed goddess.”

        Surned    livid face, trified    as s Midnig time o    noead of tion of love, s tment. In an instant tude of ake o ured suc for so long and y. S mao tino Ariza smiled, tried to say sometried to follow    sh a wave of her hand.

        “No, please,” so    it.”

        t afternoon, ter: “today, urned elegrams, o send back ters and gifts, Aunt Escolástica’s missal, ti-meter of t of St. Peter Clavier, ts’ medals, teentied    folloe less desperate letters and besieged to take to    srus not to accept any-t turned gifts. Sed    Florentino Ariza sent t turn only to Fermina Daza in person so talk, if just for a moment.

        But sal to ránsito Ariza s es of ime, and Fermina Daza received    in t asking o sit do asking o e in, and    test trace of er, after an argument ino Ariza took doained-glass case o Ariza ur in t box embroidered ino Ariza never unity to see or talk to Fermina Daza alone in ters of til fifty-one years and nine monter, y and everlasting love on    night as a widow.
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