My long due post is about the timelessness of the swamp in which macondo lies. What it seems to me is that the swamp that is in between riohacha does not only get people lost in space but also in time. I thought of this because of the clearly mixed up timeline presented. a not so simple explanation would be that the passage way to macondo has a land barrier as long as a time barrier. so that crossing through the really dense and confusing forest actually shot people forward in time. Or backwards... it is kind of confusing but one thing i am certain of is that macondo definitately does not seem to be on the same page as the rest of the world. perhaps the swamp just changes the time arbitrarily. The fact that they are so far behind the rest of the world in terms of inventions.
i don't know... just a thought
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It might be better said that Macondo subverts or even transcends time as a system of measurement. Just as the text seems to laugh in the face of point-A-to-point-B narration, or rather that it textually undoes time, Macondo is somehow outside of both time and space as we know them. In one sense this may just be GGM's way of shouting at the top of his lungs, "THIS IS FICTION NOT REALITY!!"
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