Blog Post #9 100 Years of Solitude

"Then he skipped again to anticipate the predictions and ascertain the date and circumstances of his death.  Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since the immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth."(417)

This the ending of the book when Aureliano Babilonia is finally discovering that the deciphered parchments were a description of the history of Macondo. I chose this quote because it reminded me of the show "Black Mirror". Throughout an episode of Black Mirror you are understanding what's going on but then at the end it does a complete 360 and your mind is completely blown. The ending of this book had a similar effect on me. I understood this book as I was reading it but then the ending totally surprised me. I had to read it a few times to fully understand what actually happened. Was the whole story just a mirage?