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"Beneath the mask of

Melquiades it is possible to recognize the face of Garcia Marquez: the Magus is a

persona of the author" (Monegal, p. 488)

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"he [Aureliano] and the room in which he reads are immune to the

destructions of time because they have always lived in another dimension, that of the speaking mirror of a book" (Monegal, p. 487)

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"but right there, standing, without the slightest difficulty, as if they had been written in Spanish and were being read under the dazzling splendor of high noon, he began to decipher them aloud" (Marquez, p. 421).

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"Then the wind began, warm, incipient, full of voices from the past, the murmurs of ancient geraniums, sighs of disenchantment that preceded the most tenacious nostalgia" (Marquez, p. 421).

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"He was so absorbed that he did not feel the second surge of wind either as its cyclonic strength tore the doors and windows off their hinges, pulled off the roof of the east wing, and uprooted the foundations" (Marquez, p. 421).

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"He had written it in Sanskrit, which was his mother tongue, and he had encoded the even lines in the private cipher of the Emperor Augustus and the odd ones in a Lacedemonian military code" (Marquez, p. 421).