Something very serious is going to happen in this town told
Story: Full Text
Gabriel García Márquez
Note: At a congress of writers in the seventies in Mexico, when talking about the difference between telling a story or write, García Márquez was as follows, "So you can see how it changes after when you write it. "
Imagine a very small town where an old lady who has two children, one 17 and one daughter, 14. It serves breakfast and has an expression of concern. The children asked what's wrong and she replies:
I do not know, but I woke up with the feeling that something serious will happen to these people. They
mother's laugh. They say that these are forebodings of old, things happen. The son is going to play pool, and when they will pull a cannon very simple, the other player says, "I bet
weight it does not make it.
all laugh. He laughs. Carambola and strip does not. Pay all your weight and ask him what happened, whether it was a simple fluke. Answer:
"True, but I have been worrying about one thing my mother told me this morning about something serious will happen to this town.
all laugh at him, and he has earned his weight back to his home, where he is with his mother or granddaughter or in short, any relative. Happy with your weight, says:
"I won this weight to Damasus in the simplest way because it is a fool.
- Why is a fool?
-Man, because he could not make a very simple carom clogged with the idea that his mother woke up today with the idea that something serious will happen in this town.
then tells his mother: "Do not mock
the forebodings of old because at times out.
The relative hears and will buy meat. She tells the butcher
-Sell me a pound of flesh, and when you are cutting it, she adds, "Better sell me two, because they are saying that something bad will happen and it's best to be prepared.
The butcher their meat shipped and when another woman comes to buy a pound of meat, he says: "Take
two because people come here saying that something serious will happen, and are preparing and buying things.
Then the old woman replied: "I have several children
look, better give me four pounds.
It takes four pounds, and to make a long story, tell the butcher in the meat half an hour runs out, kill another cow, sold everything and be spreading the rumor. There comes a time when everyone in the village, is waiting for something to happen. Activities are stopped and suddenly, at two in the afternoon, hot as ever. Someone says:
- Have you noticed the heat that is doing?
- But if these people ever has been hot!
(So much heat that is the town where the musicians were patched with tar and instruments always played in the shade because if they touched the sun are falling apart.)
"However," says one, at this time has never been so hot .
"But at two in the afternoon is when there is more heat.
"Yes, but not as hot as now.
The deserted village, to the deserted square, low, suddenly a bird and spread the word:
"There's a bird in the square.
And everybody is afraid, and to see the bird.
"But gentlemen, there have been birds that fall.
"Yes, but not at this time.
comes a moment of such tension to the villagers that everyone is desperate to leave and not have the courage to do so.
"I really am very macho," shouts one. I am leaving.
Grab your furniture, your children, your pets, put them in a cart and go through the main street where the poor people watching. Until they say:
"If they dare, because we too are going.
literally and start dismantling the town. Put things, animals, everything.
And one of the last to leave the village, says: "Do not come
the misfortune to fall on what remains of our house, and then the other ignite fire and also their homes. Huyen
a tremendous and real panic, as in an exodus of war and among them is the woman who was the harbinger, crying
"I told you something very serious was going to happen, and they told me I was crazy.
Story: Full Text
Gabriel García Márquez
Note: At a congress of writers in the seventies in Mexico, when talking about the difference between telling a story or write, García Márquez was as follows, "So you can see how it changes after when you write it. "
Imagine a very small town where an old lady who has two children, one 17 and one daughter, 14. It serves breakfast and has an expression of concern. The children asked what's wrong and she replies:
I do not know, but I woke up with the feeling that something serious will happen to these people. They
mother's laugh. They say that these are forebodings of old, things happen. The son is going to play pool, and when they will pull a cannon very simple, the other player says, "I bet
weight it does not make it.
all laugh. He laughs. Carambola and strip does not. Pay all your weight and ask him what happened, whether it was a simple fluke. Answer:
"True, but I have been worrying about one thing my mother told me this morning about something serious will happen to this town.
all laugh at him, and he has earned his weight back to his home, where he is with his mother or granddaughter or in short, any relative. Happy with your weight, says:
"I won this weight to Damasus in the simplest way because it is a fool.
- Why is a fool?
-Man, because he could not make a very simple carom clogged with the idea that his mother woke up today with the idea that something serious will happen in this town.
then tells his mother: "Do not mock
the forebodings of old because at times out.
The relative hears and will buy meat. She tells the butcher
-Sell me a pound of flesh, and when you are cutting it, she adds, "Better sell me two, because they are saying that something bad will happen and it's best to be prepared.
The butcher their meat shipped and when another woman comes to buy a pound of meat, he says: "Take
two because people come here saying that something serious will happen, and are preparing and buying things.
Then the old woman replied: "I have several children
look, better give me four pounds.
It takes four pounds, and to make a long story, tell the butcher in the meat half an hour runs out, kill another cow, sold everything and be spreading the rumor. There comes a time when everyone in the village, is waiting for something to happen. Activities are stopped and suddenly, at two in the afternoon, hot as ever. Someone says:
- Have you noticed the heat that is doing?
- But if these people ever has been hot!
(So much heat that is the town where the musicians were patched with tar and instruments always played in the shade because if they touched the sun are falling apart.)
"However," says one, at this time has never been so hot .
"But at two in the afternoon is when there is more heat.
"Yes, but not as hot as now.
The deserted village, to the deserted square, low, suddenly a bird and spread the word:
"There's a bird in the square.
And everybody is afraid, and to see the bird.
"But gentlemen, there have been birds that fall.
"Yes, but not at this time.
comes a moment of such tension to the villagers that everyone is desperate to leave and not have the courage to do so.
"I really am very macho," shouts one. I am leaving.
Grab your furniture, your children, your pets, put them in a cart and go through the main street where the poor people watching. Until they say:
"If they dare, because we too are going.
literally and start dismantling the town. Put things, animals, everything.
And one of the last to leave the village, says: "Do not come
the misfortune to fall on what remains of our house, and then the other ignite fire and also their homes. Huyen
a tremendous and real panic, as in an exodus of war and among them is the woman who was the harbinger, crying
"I told you something very serious was going to happen, and they told me I was crazy.
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