Science

It was Pilar Ternera. As soon as Pilar saw her come in she was aware of Meme’s hidden motives. “Sit down”, she told her. “I don’t need cards to tell the future of a Buendía”. Meme did not know and never would, that the centenarian soothsayer was her great-grandmother. Nor would she have believed it after the aggressive realism with which she revealed to her that the yearning of love could not find repose except in bed.

One Hundred Years of Solitude