"It's coming," she finally explained. "Something frightful, like a kitchen dragging a village behind it." At that moment the town was shaken by a whistle with a fearful echo and a loud, panting respiration. During the previous weeks they had seen the gangs who were laying ties and tracks and no one paid attention to them because they thought it was some new trick of the gypsies, coming back with whistles and tambourines. (Márquez 222)
This portion of the reading was extremely interesting to me. It seems like the natives of Macondo are somewhat scared or worried about what the "technology" will bring to their town and are very apprehensive to accepting it. On the following page a quote shows this, "They stayed up all night looking at the pale electric bulbs fed by the plant that Aureliano Triste had brought back when the train made its second trip, and it took time for them to grow accustomed to its obsessive toom-toom" The reason I personally am surprised by this is because they look at a locomotive like a very obscure concept, but don't think twice about the magic that happens around them. For example, Aureliano Segundo continues to have sex with Petra Cotes because it causes the livestock to reproduce at a faster rate making them a fortune. Another example is when people don't think twice other than that the Heavens are mourning by raining yellow flowers from the sky when José Aureliano Buendía dies.
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