The Picture Framer

Watching him putting in latches and repairing clocks, Fernanda wondered whether he too might be falling into the vice of making in order to take apart, like Colonel Aureliano Buendía and his little gold fishes, Amaranta and her buttons and her shroud, José Arcadio Segundo and his parchments, and Úrsula and her memories.

One Hundred Years of Solitude