A short thread of excerpts from "The Autumn of the Patriarch" by Gabriel García Márquez, because that seems to fit the current vibes.🧵
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace [...] and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.
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...no one could give in to the evidence that the senile body there gouged by vultures and infested with parasites from the depths of the sea was his. The hand turned into a figurine by putrefaction gave no indication that it had ever been held on the chest...
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If he did not abandon himself to the will of death at that time it was not because he lacked the rage to die but because he knew he was remorselessly condemned not to die of love, he had known it ever since one afternoon during the first days of his empire...
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Everyone had come home under the spell of the surreptitious news of his death that could not be contained, liberals and conservatives had returned in reconciliation with the embers of so many years of postponed ambitions...
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The only document of identity for an overthrown president should be his death certificate.
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