I've read One Hundred Years of Solitude, and I'm still not sure what this song means.
If you're curious:
Near the end of the book, Amaranta Ursula gives birth to child with a tail (fathered by Aureliano, her nephew). "'He's a real cannibal,' she said. 'We'll name him Rodrigo.'"
Amaranta Ursula procedes to bleed to death due to an unnamed complication during the birth. Aureliano is overcome by grief and wanders off to the local watering hole to get sloshed on cane liquor. He finally returns the next day to find the dead infant being carried off by ants. (Yes, the whole book is like this...but it won a Nobel Prize)
Of possible relevance:
Roderigo's (although the parents actually disagree on the infant's name) great-great-great grandfather became senile and ended up living the last years of his life tied to a tree outside of his house because his family didn't want him breaking things inside.
I've read One Hundred Years of Solitude, and I'm still not sure what this song means.
If you're curious: Near the end of the book, Amaranta Ursula gives birth to child with a tail (fathered by Aureliano, her nephew). "'He's a real cannibal,' she said. 'We'll name him Rodrigo.'"
Amaranta Ursula procedes to bleed to death due to an unnamed complication during the birth. Aureliano is overcome by grief and wanders off to the local watering hole to get sloshed on cane liquor. He finally returns the next day to find the dead infant being carried off by ants. (Yes, the whole book is like this...but it won a Nobel Prize)
Of possible relevance: Roderigo's (although the parents actually disagree on the infant's name) great-great-great grandfather became senile and ended up living the last years of his life tied to a tree outside of his house because his family didn't want him breaking things inside.