Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez

she would rather die than be seen on a pleasure trip, by people she knew, so soon after the death of her husband.

he played it for hours until they forced him to stop.

Fermina Daza felt in her blood the wild beating of her free will.

broke into indecent slang that ended once and for all the reputation for fine speech enjoyed by the riverboat captains.

overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.