Big Mama's Funeral
The absolute sovereign of Macondo dies at ninety-two after dictating an inventory of her holdings that runs from cattle and rivers to the national colours, the right of way and the pure blood of the ruling class. The Pope and the President come to the burial, and the narrator hawks the account like a street crier before the ants carry the kingdom off. The tone One Hundred Years of Solitude would run on, tested at speed.
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- companion to ↑ Leaf Storm
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