Page 34, Harper Perennial Publishing House 1997.
" ... Ursula was barely over her forty days' rest when the gypsies returned... This time, along with many other artifices they brought a flying carpet. But they did not offer it as a fundamental contribution to the development of transport, rather as an object of recreation. The people at once dug up their last gold pieces to take advantage of a quick flight over the houses of the village. Protected by the delightful cover of collective disorder, José Arcadio and Pilar passed many relaxing hours. They were two happy lovers among the crowd, and they even came to suspect that love could be a feeling that was more relaxing and deep than the happiness, wild but momentary, of their secret nights"  (See Pilar and Jose Arcadio  in your right stone)