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Botany

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1. some of the best writing ever!
Sat Apr 19, 2014, 09:34 AM
Apr 2014

"The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point," I was intrigued. When Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia, who are cousins, marry, but she refuses to sleep with her husband because she's afraid that they will have a child with a pig's tail, her husband says, "I don't care if I have piglets as long as they can talk." And later: "If you bear iguanas, we'll raise iguanas."


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87 Years Of Solitude [View all] kpete Apr 2014 OP
some of the best writing ever! Botany Apr 2014 #1
Fox News made the guy out a commie. Octafish Apr 2014 #2
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