"They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary."

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Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez