百年孤独是什么文学的代表作 世纪文学经典:《百年孤独》第14章Part6

世纪文学经典:《百年孤独》第14章Part6  

"That's a fine excuse
" he said.
Meme realized that he was burning in the heat of his pride
and she desperately looked for a way to humiliate him. But he would not give her any time. "Don't get upset
" he said to her in a low voice. "It's not the first time that a woman has gone crazy over a man." She felt so defeated that she left the garage without seeing the new models and she spent the night turning over in bed and weeping with indignation. The American redhead
who was really beginning to interest her
looked like a baby in diapers. 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 that 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 theaudience 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. Once Aureli-ano Segun-do became so impatient with the suffocating fluttering that she felt the impulse to confide her secret to him as she had promised
but instinct told her that he would laugh as usual and say: "What would your mother say if she found out?" One morning
while she was pruning the roses
Fernanda let out a cry of fright and had Meme taken away from the spot where she was
which was the same place in the garden where Remedios the Beauty had gone up to heaven. She had thought for an instant that the miracle was going to be repeated with her daughter
because she had been bothered by a sudden flapping of wings. It was the butterflies. Meme saw them as if they had suddenly been born out of the light and her heart gave a turn. At that moment Mauricio Babilonia came in with a package that according to what he said
was a present from Patricia Brown. Meme swallowed her blush
absorbed her tribulation
and even managed a natural smile as she asked him the favor of leaving it on the railing because her hands were dirty from the garden. The only thing that Fernanda noted in the man whom a few months later she was to expel from the house without remembering where she had seen him was the bilious texture of his skin.
"He's a very strange man
" Fernanda said. "You can see in his face that he's going to die."