ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE- POST 1

"Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked name, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point. Every year during the month of March a family of ragged gypsies would set up their tentes near the village, and with a gret upreoar of pipes and kettledrums they would display new inventions."

Through this passage the author is trying to convey the youth and innocence of the town. The river is clear, the homes are emaculate and white-- everything is new, untouched and pure. It is compared to a prehistoric egg, an ultimate example of new life being born into an undeveloped society with raw and undestroyed resources. The yearly appearance of the gypsies causes and uproar because the technology they bring is foreign concept that will ultimately conjour a route to evil, as it has since the beginning of time.