“Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.”

—  Gabriel García Márquez , book Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), trans. Gregory Rabassa [Ballantine, 1984, ISBN 0-345-31002-0], p. 47

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