![]() ![]() Many people coincided in recalling that it was a radiant morning with a sea breeze coming in through the banana groves, as was to be expected in a fine February of that period. No one was certain if he was referring to the state of the weather. Furthermore: all the many people he ran into after leaving his house at five minutes past six and until he was carved up like a pig an hour later remembered him as being a little sleepy but in a good mood, and he remarked to all of them in a casual way that it was a very beautiful day. ![]() He had slept little and poorly, without getting undressed, and he woke up with a headache and a sediment of copper stirrup on his palate, and he interpreted them as the natural havoc of the wedding revels that had gone on until after midnight. Nor did Santiago Nasar recognize the omen. She had a well- earned reputation as an accurate interpreter of other people's dreams, provided they were told her before eating, but she hadn't noticed any ominous augury in those two dreams of her son's, or in the other dreams of trees he'd described to her on the mornings preceding his death. \"The week before, he'd dreamed that he was alone in a tinfoil airplane and flying through the almond trees without bumping into anything,\" she said to me. \"He was always dreaming about trees,\" Plácida Linero, his mother, told me twenty-seven years later, recalling the details of that distressing Monday. ![]() He'd dreamed he was going through a grove of timber trees where a gentle drizzle was falling, and for an instant he was happy in his dream, but when he awoke he felt completely spattered with bird shit. Gabriel García Márquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold 1 2 3 4 5 About the Author the pursuit of love is like falconry GIL VICENTE 1 ON THE DAY THEY WERE GOING TO KILL him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on. ![]()
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