garcia marquez's dream
...along a bed of smooth, polished stones. When one took a closer look several years later, however, one could find broken almond tree leaves, houses with obscure colorations as a result of the trends of time, and the history of a tired, solitary family locked in a vicious cycle controlled by fate. Although time certainly went forward with precision and inflexibility like the hypnotizing tick-tock of the second hand in a clock, very few seemed to notice that time simultaneously went in circles, resembling the ripple effect of water, starting out with a faint yet fatal touch. While linear time enabled one to chart consecutive events on a timeline, the cyclical aspect provided no need for one to do so, for everything was essentially the same. The family members lived as if they were in sole control of their lives, lost in their own solitude, when in fact nothing they did was new or original but rather obsessively repetiti...