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“...At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe house, built on the bank of a river of clear water”  … . “ In March the gypsies returned. This time they brought a telescope and a magnifying glass the size of a drum , which they exhibited as the latest discovery of the Jews on Amsterdam. They placed a gypsy woman at one end of the village and set up the telescope at the entrance to the tent. For the price of five reales, people could look into the telescope and see the gypsy woman an arm’s length away.  “Science has eliminate distance” Melquíades proclaimed.”

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