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Forgotten_Lie t1_j5m0ors wrote

> 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.

The sentence summarises the nature of One Hundred Years of Solitude: the magical absurdism of 'discovering' ice; the fluidity of time moving from an unclear now to a future death then jumping to an innocent childhood; someone called Buendia.

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MyOldCricketCap t1_j5oiojn wrote

This was the first one I thought of.

Foreshadowing of conflict, echoes of the novel’s theme of people always looking back and being trapped by nostalgia, the seemingly uncomplicated early days compared with the messy later days, and the ‘magic’ of ice, which reflects the recurring images of supernatural things being considered everyday and science and technology being consider mystical.

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