This novel concludes with that wife asking the title character "meanwhile, what do we eat?" to which hereplies, "Shit."
In one incident from this novel, a priest waits outside a movie theater to see who is going to see the raunchy fiÂlm The MidnightVirgin that he warned against twelve times at church. Later in this novel, Moses the Syrian warns the protagonist thattightrope walkers eat cats when he sees a circus arriving for the fiÂrst time in ten years. The main character's attempt to sell hisclock goes awry when Alvaro repairs the clock sending him further into debt and denying him the money to pay for his wife's2asthma treatment. This novel concludes with that wife asking the title character "meanwhile, what do we eat?" to which hereplies, "Shit." The title character of this novel is nearly cheated by Sabato, who offers him only four hundred pesos for theprized cock that his murdered son Agustin leftft to him. The title character of this novella visits the same office every Fridaywaiting for a pension check to arrive for his service in the army of Colonel Aureliano Buendia. For 10 points, name this 1968novella by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez about the futility of the title military officer.
In one incident from this novel, a priest waits outside a movie theater to see who is going to see the raunchy fiÂlm The MidnightVirgin that he warned against twelve times at church.
No One Writes to the Colonel [or ElCoronel No Tiene QuiÂ´en le Escriba]