Voices I Love: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"Many years later,
as he faced the firing squad,
Colonel Aureliano Buendia
was to remember that
distant afternoon when
his father took him to discover ice."

- opening line from One Hundred Years of Solitude
by: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I have finally begun reading this classic of literature, though I believe I have read that opening line a hundred times before in anticipation. This sentence may be one of the finest in literature. It is certainly the most beautiful.


photos: View from my deck, Evergreen, Colorado September 5, 2008

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