Colonel Aureliano Buendía
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Sep 14, 2026
speaker_2HOST
It is widely considered a total masterclass in narrative seduction.
speaker_5HOST
The book opens with this single sentence: "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."
speaker_2HOST
I mean, just let the mechanics of that wash over you.
speaker_5HOST
It's incredible.
speaker_5HOST
"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."
speaker_2HOST
What's fascinating here is the sheer grammatical genius of how that sentence is constructed.
speaker_5HOST
Yeah, break that down for us.
speaker_5HOST
And that circular time doesn't just apply to one man, right? It applies to his entire bloodline.
Steve BarnesHOST
And like, like you said, the timing is against it.
Steve BarnesHOST
The way that the conservatives and the liberals are, especially with Aureliano at the house now constantly Colonel Aureliano, that is.
Steve BarnesHOST
And then again, You know her religion and the way she's trying to take over just everything is working against her.
Steve BarnesHOST
So I think the stars are unaligned for Fernanda here I can't blame it either and she's, you know, I believe that she's kind of put a damper on our liking of the episodes at this point we I think we had some texting alluding to that.
Steve BarnesHOST
origin
Lindsay DunnHOST
story of how.
Lindsay DunnHOST
power shifted from I guess Ursula to Fernanda who had the power now in some ways it's Ursula in some ways it's Colonel Aureliano they're sort of two people that are separate but living under the same roof or maybe it's because Fernanda's messing up their desire to all live under the same roof in isolation I don't know.
Lindsay DunnHOST
Maybe that's where she's failing.
Steve BarnesHOST
And I love the scenes that he's in.
Steve BarnesHOST
And he gives Remedios the seal of approval a couple times where he just... congratulates her on her foresight and says something like she's the, you know, a true Buendia or something along those lines.
Lindsay DunnHOST
Yeah.
Lindsay DunnHOST
He talks about her brightness and her, um, he disapproves.
Steve BarnesHOST
Yeah, and I believe they're foreshadowing that more is going to happen with her.
Steve BarnesHOST
Yeah, I think it's cool that you picked her, actually, because she's like what they say at the end, she's the queen of Macondo, and she's just happily inviting the queen of Madagascar to share the spotlight with her.
Steve BarnesHOST
She just has this innocence and this joy about her that's like, yeah, she's not your normal Buendias.
Lindsay DunnHOST
Yeah.
speaker_2HOST
We have to look at the opening sentence because it is a structural marvel that dictates everything that follows.
speaker_2HOST
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
speaker_1HOST
It is breathtaking.
speaker_1HOST
Time literally folds in on itself in that one sentence, and for the rest of the novel it never quite unfolds back into a straight line.