#jose aureliano

[dread3r]

100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

my goal is to convince you to READ or WATCH this series, these are the vibes (applicable to all generations because they do not give a flying f**k about family history):

xxx FIRST GENERATION xxx

Jose Arcadio Buendia

- married his cousin

- does not give a f**k about superstitions or traditions

- inventor/alchemist & is obsessed with learning & proving new sh*t

- kills someone and is forced to find a new village to find “peace”

- locks himself in his lab

- family time with his sons consists of locking himself with them in the lab

- goes batsh*t crazy when his best friend dies

- goes batsh*t crazier when his wife was not physically with him

- ends up getting tied to a tree

Ursula Iguaran Buendia

- married her cousin

- fated to have a child with a tail of a pig

- scared that she will have iguanas as children

- strong matriarch of the Buendia family and is born to witness the demise of the family she built

- a force to be reckoned with

- does not give a flying f**k about political colors (the men in her family are liberals)

- does give a flying f**k about her family

- hates/despises/abhors Arcadio’s guts

- has Rebeca as her favorite child

xxx SECOND GENERATION xxx

“Jose Arcadio” Buendia

- has such a big 🍆 his mother taught it was a deformity

- he does one of his mom’s friends // the same friend his brother f**ks in a few years

- continues the Buendia line with his illegitimate child (which he never acknowledges)

- freaked out about having a child and became a gypsy

- disappeared for so many years

- will disgrace the line even more once he returns

“Aureliano” Buendia

- is languor and has clairvoyant eyes

- has solitary air in him

- locks himself in his father’s lab during his younger years and before he dies

- he does one of his mom’s friends // the same one his brother f**ked years before

- also continues the Buendia line with his illegitimate child

- will fight for your liberal rights but will also marry and f**k a child

- will have 17 children, all named after him

- will face the firing squad

- will live long enough to become the tyrant

- started 32 wars only to let people paint their houses the color they want

- will only make gold fishes in the end

- will regret everything when he dies

Pilar Ternera

- the woman whom both Aureliano and Jose Aracadio will formicate with

- will bear them both illegitimate children

- was once a friend of Ursula

- watched Ursula give birth to Jose Arcadio

- is a witch

- reads cards/the future

- masters what happens to the Buendia men

- Buendia men approach her to get love advice after they have fornicated with her

- called a “whore” by his own son

“Remedios” Moscote-Buendia

- the said child Aureliano marries

- she is 14 in the book but Aureliano wanted to marry her even when she was 12

- there is literal sunlight wherever she goes

- would have been a great enemies to lovers trope if she WAS NOT 14

- daughter of the family’s rival

- brings peace, love, and prosperity to the Buendia home

- always so so so beautiful

- dies at a young age (often meets futile ends)

“Amaranta” Buendia

- described as plain and elegant like her mom’s grandmother

- is such a good seamstress

- hates Rebeca’s guts since childhood

- hates when anyone is prettier or more loved than her

- will fight over a guy who plays piano with Rebeca

- prays every night for something horrible to happen so Rebeca would not marry piano guy

- will end up burning her hand on the stove and wear a glove forever

- refuses to love anyone romantically

- will be romantically involved with her nephew

- will die once she finishes sewing something for her funeral

“Rebeca” Buendia

- is an ADOPTED child

- she only eats earth (soil) and whitewash on the walls

- arrived in Macondo with a bag of bones that moves (bones of her dead parents)

- described as the most beautiful in the line (prettier than Amaranta)

- fights over a guy who plays piano with Amaranta

- ends up being engaged with piano guy

- all that jazz just for her to end up choosing someone else

- said "someone else" triggers a forbidden love affair that is a favorite trope in this universe

- dies later than Amaranta

xxx THIRD GENERATION xxx

Jose “Arcadio” Buendia

- the illegitimate child of Jose Arcadio I (the gypsy) and Pilar

- looks like a child even when he was a young adult

- Ursula never accepted him so he has mommy issues

- almost f**ked his biological mother because no one ever told him who she was

- will also continue the Buendia line but this time with his legitimate children

- will also become a tyrant

- will also face the firing squad

“Aureliano Jose” Buendia

- the illegitimate child of Aureliano (the pedophile) and Pilar

- is an acknowledged natural child because his father didn’t want him to be treated like Arcadio

- was baptized

- fell in love with and wanted to f**k his aunt so bad

- when his aunt said no he drafted himself to the army

- never gets his “happy ending”

this is my PSA go read it, go watch it, its so insane and crazy don’t even buckle up just enjoy the ride, thank you!

[manujanolavu]

I'm trying to read one hundred years of solitude but like why are there so many arcadios and aurelianos in this I can't keep track this is so confusing—

[shipcestuous]

Have you heard of Hundred years of solitude being adapted by Netflix? I admit I read a long time ago and don't remember particularly shipping any incest couples except (spoilers!) the last one chronologically, aunt and nephew who did consummate their relationship and even had a child together. But there's a lot of canon incest (aunt/nephew, first cousins, mother/son, grandmother/grandson, adoptive brother/sister. Again, from my memory so if I forgot or mixed up something then sorry), and I'm curious how they will handle it. Again, it's not particularly a case of romanticised fictional incest, but not completely off-putting to shippers either, I personally enjoyed reading it (I love family sagas with a lot of incest involved even if I don't, like, strongly ship most of the incest couples in it)

I did not know that this was happening, this is very exciting. I looked it up and it says it will be 16 episodes, filmed in Spanish, and is supposedly coming this year.

Thanks for the heads up! Maybe some of these relationships will be shippier onscreen. Let's hope the series includes all of them.

[toshkakoshka]

seeing colonel aureliano smile when in the book all he experienced was a full misery makes me so emotional

[anemotionaldumbass]

me reading a hundred years of solitude

[aemondtargaryen]

HELLO i haven't finished yet the netflix show but what are your thoughts on young Úrsula? I read the book a couple of times but it was looong ago. I remember Úrsula as someone resigned to the inevitable. I certainly don't remember her so deeply in love with José Arcadio, and even less willing to have sex. I don't remember her as a sexual creature at all, despite the book having no problems getting into that.

I didnt like her that much the first part but i think her characterization improved a ton when she got older and switched actresses.

Also do you think they managed to achieve that magical realism feeling? Personally I don't think so and that makes me a little sad but despite all it was definetly a good show. Maybe the bar was too high probably.

I loved Aureliano though! Adult Aureliano was very Aurelianesque 10/10. Amaranta and Rebeca were excellent too!!

Im finally on my laptop yay!! Also when I got this ask I hadn't yet finished the show so now I can give a better answer (you probably also finished it too anon because I took years to answer lmao)

I actually liked young Ursula. She felt like I always imagined her, more than resigned, resilient. She always found a way to make things go her way, even when her husband wasn't present, she always pushed through (which is a pretty common situation in latin american households, women many times carry the burden of the house but in a tacit manner and thats how I think Ursula was portrayed). About the sex thing tbh I never got that reading from her. There's definitely some characters whose stories revolve more around sex but thats not what her story is about. However I feel she loved her husband all through her life and it shows in differents manners than just steamy sex scenes like Rebeca's.

On the magical realism I think you're right, some scenes could be perceived as being only inside the character's head for non book readers, when the purpose of magical realism is that they really are experiment those crazy phenomenons in their reality. I think they shied away a bit from it but many of the more iconic "magical" moments are still yet to come so there's hope.

Now my real pet peeve was the delivery of some of the lines. I think theres a lot of the dialogue that should have been said with more force, specially young Jose Arcadio and Ursula. They felt so calmed when I always imagined them if not yelling at least angry. Latinos are usually louder, or at least we venezuelans are. Maybe colombians aren't but I would like to think we aren't that different, so the flatness of the dialogues felt off sometimes. This too goes for the narrator.

Aureliano!! Aureliano IS 100 años de soledad so there was a lot of pressure both on the writers and the actor. Physically I think he's perfect. Also hot enough to pull that moustache lmao. Again I had some problems with the delivery of some lines at first where he just seemed too passive, but as soon as he became the Colonel everything changed (and maybe that was the idea now that I think about it). Although I gotta say the last couple of episodes made me realize that he kinda became a terrorist in the end and I hadnt caught up that in my readings (which were a lot, ive read that book like 5 or 6 times) and in my mind he always fought for justice but now seeing it again I can see he was just as corrupted by violence and power as Arcadio in the end. It did besmirch my perception of him a little, because it reminded me of whats going on currently in Colombia and the armed conflict and how he would fit right in with people from groups like the FARC. Sidenote: I think his relationship to Remedios was done masterfully, we know she's a child but the scenes were carried in a way no child actress had to be intimate with the actor.

Amaranta was great, I love how they managed to show Amaranta's two sides, the conniving vengative damaged soul, along with her maternal, calm, also damage soul lmao. Rebeca I think is the only casting that looked completely different to how I imagined her physically, but the actress did a good job portraying her.

All in all I think it was a really good adaptation, particularly for such a loved book and one with really high expectations. I think it was done in the best of moments because it was done with a high budget but with colombian actors and setting (looking at you Casa de los espiritus). Theres some things that could be improved but most of them are personal preferences. Its a really good show and I can't wait for season 2!

[dysfunctional-family-fight]

Round One

Big Mom Family (One Piece) VS the Buendía Family (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

Buendía Family art from Folio Society, by Neil Packer

Big Mom Family

Members: Linlin “Big Mom” Charlotte, Katakuri, Pound, Cracker, Big Mom's 82 other children, and her 43 husbands

Propaganda:

"They are a giant family that is also a pirate group. Everyone is married and born to fulfill Big Mom’s desire to have a family. Basically all of them hate each other." "Big Mom...so first let me note that this woman marries a man for her poliical convenience, gets pregnant, then divorces him as soon as she has his kids. She maintains complete control over the destiny of her children. They will join her pirate crew, they will fight for her, they will marry as she asks, they will grow up to serve her. They won't know their dad, or anything else, and she will even kill them when she doesn't get like a food she asks for, for instance." note: edited for length, full submission here

The Buendía Family

Members: Úrsula, José Arcadio, Colonel Aureliano, Amaranta, Rebeca, Remedios, another Jose Arcadio, Arcadio, 17 Aurelianos, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, José Arcadio Segundo, Fernanda, Remedios the Beauty, Meme, another José Arcadio, another Aureliano, Úrsula Amaranta

Propaganda:

CW: Pedophilia, murder, self-harm, suicide, rape, incest

"Well, the original patriarch José Arcadio bankrupted everyone with his get-rich-quick schemes and went insane, their child Aureliano was obsessed with and married a child, his sister Amaranta considered killing her sister Rebeca over her getting married to the man she was also in love with until Rebeca fell in love with her adopted brother José Arcadio instead, which their mother drove them out for. Then José Arcadio got mysteriously murdered. Amaranta felt so guilty about wanting some delay to the wedding so she wouldn't "have" to kill Rebeca that she refused the man they were in love with when she finally had the chance and drove him to suicide, which she felt so guilty about that she horribly burned her own hands. Then she borderline molested her nephew Aureliano José when he was a child (she never went as far as actual sexual acts but spent a lot of time with them both naked, leading to Aureliano José developing an obsession with her when he grew up). Also José Arcadio (the adopted brother who married Rebeca) had a child at 14, and said child Arcadio unknowingly tried to sleep with his mother Pilar Ternera. Aureliano Segundo, Arcadio's son, married Fernanda and they had a miserable marriage, and when their daughter Meme fell in love she had his lover shot and he got paralyzed, then sent Meme to be a nun where she never spoke again and locked their child Aureliano in a room for his childhood. Aureliano then tried to rape Ursula Amaranta, who was actually his aunt but he didn't know, but she decided she liked him more than her husband and had sex with him willingly, until she died in childbirth and their child got eaten by ants. Yeah it's a weird book." note: edited for length, full submission here

[vesicapiscean]

oh it's so beautiful the way jose loved his 13 year old niece so wholly that he waited until she had her first period to marry her. its so beautiful the way aureliano had 17 sons and 0 daughters during his war tour. its amazing the way arcadio begun sleeping naked with his aunt before he was old enough to shave. so tranquil was the house built for the sake of family, whose mother was so colosal she never lifted her skirt, whose husband frequented the whorehouse to sleep with the underage women with small breast and "under developed girlhood" whose son set out to marry his own sister after leaving for war and coming back to see she had grown tits. wow what a brilliant work of literature.

[thebookbillboard]

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Genre –

Historical fiction, magical realism, family drama, Spanish classic

What is it about –

Published in Columbia in 1967, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” was written originally in Spanish and later translated to 37 languages. It is considered a masterpiece of literature.

The book is about the Buendia family based in an isolated town, Macondo in Latin America, that is founded by them.

The story spans across a century and takes us through seven generations of Buendias against the backdrop of a changing Macondo from a small town with a handful of settlers to a thriving centre with the arrival of railroad, cinema and immigrants.

The mad ingenuity and pioneering spirit of Jose Arcadio Buendia and the hard working, practical nature of his wife Ursula sow the seeds of the Buendia family, weaving a tale that takes the reader on a roller coaster journey filled with emotions, tragedies, fantasies, wild ambitions, foolish ventures and entrapments.

These people are purely ruled by the heart with no regard for repercussions. They loved, lost, won, lived, married, prospered, starved, interbred and guarded their ambitions and dreams with utmost tenacity and passion.

The rise and fall of the family coincide and mirror the same cycle of Macondo.

Main Characters –

Úrsula Iguarán

José Arcadio Buendía

Remedios Moscote

Fernanda del Carpio 

Aureliano Buendía

Amaranta Buendía 

Amaranta Úrsula Buendía 

José Arcadio Segundo

Aureliano Segundo

Aureliano José

Book Evaluation -

Rarely you will find a family where every member is a unique character, each has his own destiny carved by himself and the present generation being as different from the one preceding it as it is similar.

You come across gypsies with their inventions of flying carpets, false teeth and ice, murders of family members, clandestine and publicised love affairs, maniacal studies in workshops, civil wars and absconding wives and sons...the list goes on making the book a very colourful, imaginative and interesting read. History and fantasy, tragedy and comedy, love and vengeance, births and deaths, all form a part of the everyday lives of the Buendias.

Even though there are so many characters, each character is given ample time to shine and carve a niche for itself in the family as well as in the reader’s mind.

The author has written the multi generation story so effortlessly that even though the names of most of the characters are similar with even similar traits, we easily remember them distinctly.

What intrigued me the most was the title of the book. As the story progresses, it becomes clear that majority of the action happens within the family house, often described as “madhouse” by Ursula, the family matriarch. The Buendias are shown to be selfish, self-centred and oblivious to the world, except one or two of the clan. Each individual has his/her own fancies, ambitions and whims and lives without any regard for the other family members, the town or the world in general. Be it long periods spent in experiments completely ignoring his family by the family patriarch Jose Arcadio or the whimsical elopement with the gypsies by his elder son Jose Arcadio or the undertaking and losing of 32 wars by his younger brother or the innumerable years spent by the family members shut alone in the laboratory, deciphering parchments or conducting metallurgy experiments. Even the fictional town of Macondo remains in solitude for several decades as it is bordered by forests and swamps and is unknown to the outside world.

As the years pass by, we witness multiple births, deaths, weddings, affairs, love stories, financial upheavals, expeditions and business ventures in the family. The town goes through droughts and floods, immigrant settlements, worker strikes and scandals and we see Macondo change from a close-knit community of 20 initial settlers to a bustling, free spirited centre full of immigrants.

There is so much happening in the book at the same time involving so many people, it seems you are watching a reality tv show that is wild, obnoxious, bordering on the thin line between reality and fantasy, shocking, dramatic, tragic, comic, sensitive, and even uplifting at times. Every word, every line, every incident moves the story forward.

In India we call a movie with all the above elements a masala potboiler. I would like to give this book the same name, but of an epic scale.

The writing style awakens a curiosity in the reader to know the fate of every character and ultimately the fate of the family and Macondo.

Your takeaway? As in the case of every masala Hindi movie made – entertainment, entertainment, entertainment.

Favourite Lines –

I couldn’t find any striking or noteworthy line to remember from any character. The book is to be devoured as a whole. But a line by Ursula s worth mentioning here, “Life comes a full circle.”

App Mention –

I listened to the story on the Storytel app in the voice of Peter Silverleaf. His voice complements the emotion and drama in the story and makes it all the more interesting to listen.

Recommendation –

DO READ the book to lose yourself in a magical and mystical world created by the author and filled with wonderful, mad, crazy, lively and passionate characters. This piece of stunning literature will cause the lines of reality and magic to blur for you and carry you along on a journey as enthralling as the citizens of the town of Macondo experienced on the flying carpets of gypsies.

I haven’t placed the book in the MUST READ category simply because I felt this book is not everyone’s cup of tea.

MUST READ/DO READ/CAN BE READ/CAN BE SKIPPED

Rating – 4/5

Ambience – 4

Language – 4

Characterization – 4

Plot – 4

Pace – 4

Entertaining – 4.5

[a-beloved-saint]

The Family Tree circa. 18XX

House Alfonso

Carlos Miguel Alfonso Alcantara, 1st Duke of Moncayo Antonia Elizabeth Alfonso Alcantara of Moncayo Joaquin Eugenia Alfonso Silva, 2nd Duke of Moncayo Luis Alfonso Silva, 1st Marquess of Jerica Apolonia Alfonso Silva of Moncayo Mario Alfonso Moscoso, 3rd Duke of Moncayo Eugenia Maria Alfonso Moscoso, 2nd Marchioness of Jerica Juan Bautista Alfonso Artega, 4th Duke of Moncayo Ignacio Alfonso Portana, 5th Duke of Moncayo Alejandro Alfonso Yanguas, 6th Duke of Moncayo Maria Alfonso Yanguas of Moncayo Enrique Alfonso Martinez, 7th Duke of Moncayo (1857 - 1881) Jose Maria Alfonso Espinoza, 8th Duke of Moncayo (1881 - )

House Ibarruri

Julian Ibarruri Olivares of Jerica Joaquin Victoria Ibarruri Alfonso, 3rd Marquess of Jerica Vincente Isabel Ibarruri Cardenas, 4th Marquess of Jerica Francisco Ibarruri Coronado, 5th Marquess of Jerica (1851 - 1890) Yohan Ibarruri Espinoza, 6th Marquess of Jerica (1885 - )

House Rojas

Jacobo Rojas Mosquera, 1st Count of Belmonte Mannuel Rojas Alfonso, 2nd Count of Belmonte (1857 - 1883) Mirtha Rojas Espinoza, 3rd Countess of Belmonte (1884 - )

House Castro

Estanislao Castro Mazorra of Lemos Bernadino Castro Garcia, 3rd Viscount of Lemos Aureliano Castro Carranza, 4th Viscount of Lemos Raimundo Castro Ibarruri, 5th Viscount of Lemos Agustin Castro Santana, 6th Viscount of Lemos Mercurio Castro Rodriguez, 7th Viscount of Lemos (1862 - 1905) Saturina Castro Espinoza, 8th Viscountess of Lemos (1899 - )

House Garcia

Duarte Garcia Acosta, 1st Viscount of Lemos Ines Garcia Alfonso, 2nd Viscountess of Lemos

House Castellvi

Rodrigo Castellvi Pimentel Angela Castellvi Alfonso

House Moscoso

Marianna Moscoso Hijar Cayetana Moscoso Hijar

House Marmolejo

Paloma Marmolejo Gascon (1885 - )

[shipcestuous]

Want to add to my message about "One hundred years of solitude" cause I reread the ending! Now, spoilers obviously. So, because of this "pig curse" (a belief that any incest between Buendias would lead to the birth of a child with pig tail. This proved to be true in the end), it's easy to see incest as depicted negative in the book. Which is reasonable, because not only the child has pig tail, but he is even called "mythological monster that was to bring the line to an end". Again, proved to be true because soon after his birth and quick death (spoilers of the very end) the city is wiped out by the wind, erasing it and the Buendia line forever, "because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth". Sounds very incest-negative. However! This is how the relationship between Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula decribed just before that:

"They would give themselves over to the worship of their bodies, discovering that the rest periods of love had unexplored possibilities, much richer than those of desire"

"Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula opened their eyes, dug deep into their souls, looked at the letter with their hands on their hearts, and understood that they were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation"

"Aware of that menace, Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula spent the hot months holding hands, ending with the love of loyalty for the child who had his beginning in the madness of fornication. At night, holding each other in bed, they were not frightened by the sublunary explosions of the ants or the noise of the moths or the constant and clean whistle of the growth of the weeds in the neighboring rooms"

"and then they learned that dominant obsessions can prevail against death and they were happy again with the certainty that they would go on loving each other in their shape as apparitions long after other species of future animals would steal from the insects the paradise of misery that the insects were finally stealing from man"

And this is how the birth of so-called "mythological monster" is described:

"Through her tears Amaranta Ursula could see that he was one of those great Buendias, strong and willful like the Jose Arcadios, with the open and clairvoyant eyes of the Aurelianos, and predisposed to begin the race again from the beginning and cleanse it of its pernicious vices and solitary calling, for he was the only one in a century who had been engendered with love"

This baby (also called Aureliano) is literally called the ONLY one in the family who was born from love. He's also the only one born from incest (if you don't count children of the original Buendias, first cousins). So, my question is if you really, really wanted us to think incest is disgusting and that was the only point of the book, why would you include that. Also, as Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula did not know about the pig tail prophecy, they were not alarmed by this, and the midwife even said that "the tail could be cut off when the child got his second teeth". Which would happen irl probably if such child was born.

So, of course I'm no literary critic in any way and it's probably better to hear their interpretations than mine, but I just think making an incest couple also one of the only couples in the book who were really in love does not serve to make incest seem off-puting. If I had that goal, I'd probably leave them at lust which they started with. Also I could show the grown-up child as a real horrible vicious person who puts an end to his bloodline through his actions, not through just being born and triggering the "curse", cause tail or not, the baby was innocent and I doubt any reader saw it the other way.

Also, a bit off-topic but this couple until the end thought they were brother and sister rather than aunt and nephew, well, not like it stopped them, lol.

[x]

Thanks for these extra details and that great passage!

Yeah, kind of raising my brow at all of this? The great incestuous undoing of the family is an innocent baby born of love with a physical disfigurement that's easily fixed?

[toshkakoshka]

already rambled about this to oomf on here about CAB but im here to throw it in again.

when reading the book i never took to thinking that aureliano was genuinely in love with remedios. the book describes him as feeling empty growing up, developing an obsession with making fishes and also closing himself off socially from the world. when he found himself infatuated with remedios, i initially thought: “here’s a guy with too much time on his hands and a fucked up line of thinking.” in the sense that— in aureliano’s pedophilia, i was looking at it through an outside lens and not in the lens aureliano would see it.

granted its much easier to dismiss aureliano’s attractions as the usual pedophilic obsessions— in the book there isn’t a striking development to their relationship that actually states about both of them falling in love. would it have needed such a graphic display though? as graphic as jose arcadio and pilar’s sexual affairs? as intense as aureliano segundo and petra cotes’s shared love? ggm isnt afraid to critically show the way attraction can intensify between two cousins, two siblings or even an underaged boy with a grown woman, why would he stop between a little girl and a man? (because this type of relationship just isn’t ever going to be possible.)

but then the show like… revealed it to me. aureliano’s point of view— immersed in the continuous and more obvious visualized versions of the book, reminding me that aureliano’s strange behaviors, as was everybody else’s, were not unwarranted, and were manifested from metaphor and symbolism.

and so we are told the story of how he falls in love with a little girl. only, even if he does fall in love, this isn’t a love story. that was not ggm’s intent, after all. aureliano fell in love, taught her things, married her, but we aren’t given details as to how their relationship was developed over the time that let them consummate their marriage up to the point she died so brutally. instead we’re given the details of how she affected the buendias as a whole.

the family was happy. they felt hope for the first time, their days brightened up by the sight of her as she tended to everybody in the house. “the house became full of love” and it overflowed with joy the moment remedios moscote moved in with them.

and in turn, that made aureliano happy. he loved life more as a result. he looked at her and realized he should keep going.

so when i look at this after looking back to those chapters and episodes, thinking of the reasons as to how it lead him all the way up to here, i realize that aureliano is stunted.

he’s stuck in the perpetual state of pain jose arcadio left him in. when the family fell apart, so did he, and he confined himself to his room, making little fishes as his handiwork over and over until he perfected their shapes. he had to become a big brother, to grow into a smaller version of a parent, to arcadio and amaranta. and as time passed, his ability to cope only grew more desperately (as did his skill) especially as things got worse for everybody in the house.

so it was only natural that he fell in love with a little girl. he fell in love with her innocence, her purity, the love she gave and took back. he fell in love with childhood. he felt like he could heal his inner child through being with her.

and he was reminded that could never happen. not when she died, pregnant with his children. he threw her into a world she was not ready to be thrust into, at an age where she only got her first period or still played with dolls, it was aureliano’s own fault for doing this to her, as he did himself.

she died growing up too fast.

[darthgrandpaw]

They could hear Ursula fighting against the laws of creation to maintain the line, and Jose Arcadio Buendia searching for the mythical truth of the great inventions, and Fernanda praying, and Colonel Aureliano Buendia stupefying himself with the deception of war and the little gold fishes, and Aureliano Segundo dying of solitude in the turmoil of his debauches, and then they learned that dominant obsessions can prevail against death and they were happy again with the certainty that they would go on loving each other in their shape as apparitions long after other species of future animals would steal from the insects the paradise of misery that the insects were finally stealing from man.

Tuesday Riddell — Insects Feasting on Apple  (gold leaf, silver leaf, gold powder, pigment and paint on japanned board, 2019)

[kopffkino]

“W długich dziejach rodziny uparte powtarzanie imion pozwoliło jej wyciągać decydujące wnioski. Aurelianowie byli skryci i trzeźwi, Jose Arcadiowie natomiast okazywali się impulsywni, przedsiębiorczy, lecz naznaczeni piętnem tragedii. Do wyjątków należeli tylko Jose Arcadio Drugi i Aureliano Drugi. Byli tak podobni do siebie w dzieciństwie i tak przekorni, że nawet Santa Sofia de la Piedad nie mogła ich odróżnić. W dniu chrztu Amaranta nałożyła im bransoletni z imionami i ubrała ich na różne kolory, odznaczone inicjałami każdego z osobna, ale kiedy zaczęli chodzić do szkoły, postanowili zamienić się na ubrania i na bransoletki i zwracać się do siebie zamienionymi imionami. Nauczyciel Melchior Escalona, przyzwyczajony odróżniać Josego Arcadia Drugiego po zielonej koszuli, stracił panowanie nad sobą, kiedy odkrył, że nosi on bransoletkę z napisem Aureliano Drugi, ale jego brat twierdzi, że nazywa się Aureliano Drugi, pomimo białej koszuli i bransoletki z imieniem Jose Arcadio Drugi. Od tej chwili nikt nie wiedział na pewno, kto jest kim. Nawet później, kiedy wyrośli i życie ich ukształtowało odmiennie. Urszula zastanawiała się, czy oni sami nie pomylili się w którymś momencie swej zawiłej gry pomyłek i nie zamienili się na zawsze.”

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Don't listen to them aureliano jose the revolution isn't about letting you fuck your aunt

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5. TALLER

"He declined the lifetime pension offered him after the war and until old age he made his living from the little gold fishes that he manufactured in his workshop in Macondo." (Marquez 103)

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While we were in Aracataca, we got the opportunity to produce artisanal handicrafts. We were guided by a duo to make one of the most representative symbols of the novel - the yellow butterfly. These yellow butterflies are synonymous with the character of Mauricio Babilonia - a mechanic, the lover of Meme and the eventual father to the penultimate Aureliano, Aureliano Babilonia. Marquez writes, “It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia. She had seen them before, especially over the garage, and she had thought they were drawn by the smell of paint. Once she had seen them fluttering about her head before she went into the movies. But when Mauricio Babilonia began to pursue her like a ghost that only she could identify in the crowd, she understood that the butterflies had something to do with him. Mauricio Babilonia was always in the audience at the concerts, at the movies, at high mass, and she did not have to see him to know that he was there, because the butterflies were always there.” (287)

Furthermore, working with our hands on a long table in a meeting room in La Casa Museo seemed emblematic of Jose Arcadio Buendía tinkering around trying to discover the secrets of the universe or the next great invention or Aureliano working in his workshop. However, instead of making little gold fishes we were making gold butterflies. Yulieth’s observation that we were reading Cien Anos with our five senses was prevalent here.