And as Aureliano Babilonia, the last surviving Buendia, is given by his imminent death the insight to decode the parchments of Melquiades, he discovers that Sir Francis Drake had attacked Riohacha only so that they could seek each other through the most intricate labyrinths of blood until they would engender the mythological animal that was to bring the line to an end. The narrative continues: It was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was un repeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth. IN a long published interview with Fernandez Bras6, Garcia Marquez spoke of his search for a style: I had to live twenty years and write four books of apprenticeship to discover that the solution lay at the very root of the problem: I had to tell the story, simply, as my grandparents told it, in an imperturbable tone, with a serenity in the face of evidence which did not change even though the world were falling in on them, and without doubting at any moment what I was telling, even the most frivolous or the most truculent, as though these old people had realized that in literature there is nothing more convincing than conviction itself
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