Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
“許多年之後,麵對行刑隊,奧雷良諾·布恩地亞上校將會回想起,他父親帶他去見識冰塊的那個遙遠的下午。
這是《百年孤獨》的開場白,也是這本書中最經典的一句話。
據說僅這句話曾經影響到了中國一代文學作家,讓莫言琢磨了30年。