The Bedroom

She never got her reason back. When she went into the bedroom she found Petronila Iguarán there with her bothersome crinolines and the beaded jacket that she put on for formal visits, and she found Tranquilina María Miniata Alacoque Buendía, her grandmother, fanning herself with a peacock feather in her invalid's rocking-chair, and her great-grandfather Aureliano Arcadio Buendía with his imitation dolman of the viceregal guard, and Aureliano Iguarán, her father, who had invented a prayer to make the worms shrivel up and drop off cows, and her timid mother, and her cousin with the pig's tail, and José Arcadio Buendía, and her dead children, all of them sitting in chairs lined up against the wall as if it were a wake and not a visit.

One Hundred Years of Solitude