百年孤独这本书怎么样 世纪文学经典:《百年孤独》第6章Part 1

世纪文学经典:《百年孤独》第6章Part 1  

COLONEL AURELIANO BUENDíA anized thirty--o armed uprisings and he lost them all. He had seventeen male children by seventeen different women and they were exterminated one after the other on a single night before the oldest one had reached the age of thirty-five. He survived fourteen attempts on his life
seventy-three ambushes
and a firing squad. He lived through a dose of strychnine in his coffee that was enough to kill a horse. He refused the Order of Merit
which the President of the Republic awarded him. He rose to be Commander in Chief of the revolutionary forces
with jurisdiction and mand from one border to the other
and the man most feared by the government
but he never let himself be photographed. 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. Although he always fought at the head of his men
the only wound that he received was the one he gave himself after signing the Treaty of Neerlandia
which put an end to almost enty years of civil war. He shot himself in the chest with a pistol and the bullet came out through his back without damaging any vital an. The only thing left of all that was a street that bore his name in Macondo. And yet
as he declared a few years before he died of old age
he had not expected any of that on the dawn he left with his enty-one men to join the forces of General Victorio Medina.
"We leave Macondo in your care." was all that he said to Arcadio before leaving. "We leave it to you in good shape
try to have it in better shape when we return."
Arcadio gave a very personal interpretation to the instructions. He invented a uniform with the braid and epaulets of a marshal
inspired by the prints in one of Melquíades' books
and around his waist he buckled the saber with gold tassels that had belonged to the executed captain. He set up the o artillery pieces at the entrance to town
put uniforms on his former pupils
who had been amused by his fiery proclamations
and let them wander through the streets armed in order to give outsiders an impression of invulnerability. It was a doubleedged deception
for the government did not dare attack the place for ten months
but when it did it unleashed such a large force against it that resistance was liquidated in a half hour. From the first day of his rule Arcadio revealed his predilection for decrees. He would read as many as four a day in order to decree and institute everything that came into his head. He imposed obligatory military service for men over eighteen
declared to be public property any animals walking the streets after six in the evening
and made men who were overage wear red armbands. He sequestered Father Nicanor in the parish house under pain of execution and prohibited him from saying mass or ringing the bells unless it was for a Liberal victory. In order that no one would doubt the severity of his aims
he ordered a firing squad anized in the square and had it shoot at a scarecrow. At first no one took him seriously. They were
after all
schoolchildren playing at being grownups. But one night
when Arcadio went into Catarino's store
the trumpeter in the group greeted him with a fanfare that made the customers laugh and Arcadio had him shot for disrespect for the authorities. People who protested were put on bread and water with their ankles in a set of stocks that he had set up in a schoolroom. "You murderer!" úrsula would shout at him every time she learned of some new arbitrary act. "When Aureliano finds out he's going to shoot you and I'll be the first one to be glad." But it was of no use. Arcadio continued tightening the tourniquet with unnecessary rigor until he became the cruelest ruler that Macondo had ever known. "Now let them suffer the difference
" Don Apolinar Moscote said on one occasion. "This is the Liberal paradise." Arcadio found out about it. At the head of a patrol he assaulted the house
destroyed the furniture
flogged the daughters
and dragged out Don Apolinar Moscote. When úrsula burst into the courtyard of headquarters
after having gone through the town shouting shame and brandishing with rage a pitch-covered whip
Arcadio himself was preparing to give the squad the mand to fire.
"I dare you to
bastard!" úrsula shouted.