... knowledge, lost its innocence, and was annihilated. Macondo's conception occurred at the beginning of time, when "the world was so recent that many things lacked names."1 The town had begun in a similar fashion to the book of Genesis, with so little known about the world, that objects remained unnamed. Founded in purity, after Macondo's patriarch Jose Arcadio Buendia and his wife Ursula fled their previous town, life was begun anew. Carved out of a virgin forest, the village recreated Eden, as the people arranged "the business of their souls directly with God.... [as] they had lost the evil of original sin."2 All were created equal, for Jose Arcadio Buendia had set up the placement of the original houses in such a way that all of them were equidistant from the river and all houses received the same amount of sunlight.3 As in The Garden, mortality was a foreign concept, ...

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