"little scoundrel." "There you are." "You are a bad boy." "Come on." "Hop on." "Like you always do." "Holy sacraments!" "You'll kill yourself!" "Only God knows how much I loved you." "Someone has died." "Huh-uh." "it must be a very big fish if they are ringing the cathedral bells." "lay down." "Let's do it again." "Please?" "Tolling like that must be for a governor at least." "Or" "What?" "What is it?" "you must go back to college." "My driver will take you." "There is something I have to do." "My deepest sympathy." "Your father was a saint." "My condolences." "I'm so sorry." "We would still have cholera if it had not been for him." "Mrs. Urbino." "Mom." "gentlemen." "See you later." "I'll stay if you want me to." "I have waited nine months and four days. from the first moment I cast eyes on you until now." "I repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love." "Florentino Ariza get out of here!" "Get out!" "And don't show your face again for the years of life that are left to you." "And I hope there are very few of them." "Florentino Ariza!" "Florentino!" "Ah!" "come on." "to Senor Lorenzo Daza." "Park of Evangels." "a rough diamond." "lots of mules." "Lotario." "Thank you." "I'm coming." "I'm coming. that's double what I paid for this whole abbey cloister what?" "!" "Senor Lorenzo Daza." "Yes." "good news." "Good news!" "No reply." "Look at the shape of the letter." "Not "U" but "A." "M-me" "M-m me mis mistook" "Senor!" "Tak mistook mistake-taken" "Good." "Good." "Very good. mistaken." "I didn't do anything." "Don't you greet your mother?" "have you eaten?" "Have you eaten? for I have learned that is your majestic immortal name." "I write this very short note in order to let you know" "that I love you." "You haven't been to bed." "Shh!" "Are you ill?" "No." "my son." "Are you sure?" "I'm not ill." "Let me feel your head." "Let me feel your head." "a book?" "a letter." "and they're just one letter." "But what kind of a letter?" "Holy Mother." "It is a love letter." "who is she?" "Her name is" "Fermina Daza." "They're new in town." "Her mother is dead." "Her father owns mules." "I have discovered the reason for my existence." "my son." "That's it!" "come on." "But there is money in mules." "Does Fermina Daza return your love?" "I've discovered" "I don't know." "We haven't spoken." "That's why I'm writing the letter. but she's always with her aunt." "not the girl." "It's him!" "It is the telegram boy." "Walk on." "Eh-hh." "Let me stand next to her." "No! all I ask is that you accept a letter from me." "Not now." "When?" "Afterwards." "Corpus Christi." "Corpus Christi." "Amen." "Fernando!" "I'm going to wish" "Mother Superior a happy Christmas." "This is the greatest moment in my life." "Give it to me." "It was very long." "I made it shorter." "Wait!" "It's a flower of promising." "Go." "And don't see me again until you hear from me." "My Holy Mother." "My Holy Mother." "my son." "It is cholera." "Mama." "My son!" "I gave her the letter." "Now I must wait for her reply." "Yeah." "Then enjoy your pain." "Take advantage of it now while you are young. because these things don't last your whole life." "May she answer soon." "She won't." "Florentino!" "Florentino!" "What the hell you are doing?" "it's British." "It's the mail from Liverpool." "British." "Come here." "What is wrong with you?" "This isn't love." "give me." "Up up up up." "wait wait." "go." "What is wrong with you?" "You need to take your mind off her." "Come with me to the whorehouse if" "Yes?" "how much is it to send a telegram to the village of Piedras de Moler?" "Piedras de Moler?" "Uh-huh." "Uh let me see." "It's it's not on our list." "You don't you don't send telegrams to Piedras de Moler?" "No." "Th then" "good day to you." "Senorita!" "Dear Florentino Ariza" "I am sorry that I have made you wait so long for my reply." "I ask your forgiveness." "write to me again soon." "I enclose what I know is a worthless memento." "I also write this verse in honor of my love for you." "I think of you every moment." "thoughts of you fill me with life." "I will love you forever." "Forever." "Shh-hhh." "Shhh." "It's him." "Of course it's him." "Senorita Escolastica?" "Shhh. please turn apart so I can talk privately to the young lady." "I have something important to ask her." "What impertinence!" "There's nothing that has to do with her that I cannot hear." "Then I will not say anything. you will be responsible for the consequences." "Fermina Daza." "I am here." "We've written too many letters and too much time has passed." "So now I make this vow." "I swear to you my eternal fidelity and I ask in all humility to do me the great honor of marrying me." "You you must give me time." "say yes!" "but I know about love. you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no." "I know what I'm talking about." "very well." "I will marry you if you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant." "Who is he?" "Who is he?" "Who is he?" "Who is this Florentino Ariza?" "Huh?" "And Mother Superior says that you write letters to him?" "And you you!" "You are to blame." "No!" "Aunt!" "No!" "No!" "listen to your father." "I do it because because I but but I have to I have to ex I have to explain myself." "I have to explain myself." "It's difficult because I'm a plain man. you've been you've been a daughter a daughter is a jewel." "but you're you're you're the the crown." "And I don't I don't I don't work for me." "We didn't come here for me." "We came here for you." "For you!" "But you don't know how just how beautiful you are." "You-you-you you're you're you're much too beautiful to marry a telegraph operator. love is an illusion." "I swear to Christ" "good morning." "You and I must talk man to man." "Ahhhh." "When my wife died I set myself one goal." "One goal to turn my daughter into a great lady." "Now that's that's a long road to travel for a mule trader." "I've never had a drink this early in the morning." "Better start now." "You're going to need it." "I came to this town because here was the possibility of a grand marriage." "Then an unforeseen obstacle to the plan that I have fought for with my life" "you." "So I've come to make a polite request." "Get out of our way." "Have you spoken to her?" "None of that." "None of that." "This is a matter for men and it will be decided by men." "I cannot answer without knowing what she thinks." "Don't force me to shoot you." "Shoot me." "There is no greater glory than to die for love." "Pack!" "Where are we going?" "To our death!" "You'd better explain." "I'm not leaving." "Take it to him now." "What is this?" "They leaving." "They going to the country." "Hurry up!" "Where are you going?" "He's taking me away." "Sit down!" "Fermina." "Don't you dare talk to him!" "Where are you talking her?" "He's taking me away!" "Get out of our way." "Hyah!" "Hyah!" "Get back." "Get back." "¢Ü I think of you every day ¢Ü" "¢Ü I think of you a little bit more ¢Ü" "¢Ü I tear my reason apart ¢Ü" "¢Ü Something inside me gets destroyed ¢Ü" "mule." "¢Ü I think of you every day ¢Ü" "¢Ü I think of you a little bit more ¢Ü" "¢Ü And I keep thinking of you ¢Ü" "¢Ü And I keep thinking. ¢Ü" "right?" "Aunt Fermina!" "may I help you?" "What are you here for?" "Cousin Fermina?" "I have a surprise for you." "Cousin." "He wants me to fix a wedding date." "Will you?" "Of course." "Senoritas." "Make it well into the future." "Your father said he will keep you here for a year at least." "A year is nothing." "We will exchange telegrams as we used to exchange letters." "And our love will triumph." "There is no man on Earth more perfect than Florentino Ariza." "are you in love?" "A married man." "20 years older than me." "Do you exchange letters?" "No." "Secret glances. but I just know that we must learn to be happy without love." "And in spite of it." "Happy without love?" "Yes." "Happy without love." "I want to eat the tender flesh of every word she has written to me over and over." "I hope I survive." "But danger is everywhere." "Fire! the ever-recurring civil war might." "And there is the disease the deadly choking embrace of cholera." "Dead collectors!" "My daughter is" "She is even more impossible to predict than war. then suddenly she lets go. she lets go." "Florentino!" "Up here!" "I promise." "All in good time." "So which one is it going to be?" "my beloved is returning soon." "I have to keep myself pure." "And I will only lose my virginity for love." "Oooh." "That is such a bad idea." "Florentino." "I will be back but not for some time." "let's go." "So the worst years of my life passed." "I counted the eternal minutes one by one as I waited for her return." "But I do not mind." "I will keep watch for all of eternity." "I will keep watch until I die if need be." "I stand vigil for her beside the lighthouse. even while it is as turbulent as the crashing waves." "what are you doing here?" "the young lady I'm going to marry is coming back tonight." "I'm waiting for her." "Come on." "Come on!" "Ricardo the lighthouse keeper is my only friend." "He does not understand." "I must be here to will her home." "I delegate to you the authority to run this household and turn over to you the keys to your life." "you are the coming of the dawn." "you have returned to the one newborn." "come on." "that one over there." "Thank you." "Coconut candy!" "Sweets for your sweetie." "Coconut candy!" "The Arcade of Scribes is not a place for a crowned goddess." "No." "please." "Forget it." "Wh-wh-what do you mean "forget it"?" "I just" "I just realized this this moment when I saw you." "What?" "What did you realize?" "What is between us is nothing more than an illusion." "It it clouded my eyes." "I'm so sorry." "You you just realized it?" "Yes." "The moment I saw you." "Make him well." "Please." "Dr. Juvenal Urbino?" "He's a busy man." "This is urgent." "No." "Appointments only." "Cholera my mistress has cholera." "you can't go up there." "You need to wear a mask." "the patient's cousin." "She's upstairs." "when I examine her." "Her father's with her." "thank you." "Thank you for coming." "I pray to God you can do something." "They say you know more about cholera than a" "Under the tongue." "Vomiting?" "twice?" "Twice." "Diarrhea?" "Severe?" "I don't" "What?" "I I don't know." "I've never had it before." "please." "It is an intestinal infection." "What?" "It's not cholera?" "No." "I'll prescribe medicine." "Three days at home and she'll be well again." "Did you hear that?" "Oh." "wait wait." "wait!" "How did you learn so much about cholera?" "studied in Paris under Professor Proust. closed sewage Your daughter." "Yes?" "She's very beautiful." "Thank you." "Senorita." "um take your pulse." "please." "Mm-hmm." "You are like a a new-sprung rose." "Thank you." "Do you like music?" "What is the point of that question?" "Music is important for one's health." "don't!" "Doctor!" "Do not go." "I saw it all." "I saw it all." "I I told your daughter that she is like a rose." "but one with too many thorns." "Up up up!" "You open that window and apologize." "I have nothing to apologize for." "I closed the window to keep out the sun." "okay?" "Do as I tell you." "Say something now!" "sir." "Her education." "Let me escort you to the carriage." "Senor." "I I would like your permission to write to your daughter." "Ahh." "I will go and find her." "I won't let her go." "My destiny in life is to love Fermina." "I will win her back." "look!" "beautiful!" "another one." "I told you not to accept it. but is hard to say no to Dr. Urbino." "How many is that now?" "Seven." "You must reply." "We're not going to discuss it." "We must hurry." "The Belgian photographer is expecting us." "help us to dress." "it is perfect." "very still." "I will count to five now." "three five." "three!" "Benny Centeno!" "Benny" "Move aside!" "Move aside!" "Benny!" "Champion!" "I'll take you wherever you want to go." "Benny!" "Who is Benny Centeno?" "He just won the boxing championship in Panama." "Oh." "This is so nice." "I could spend the rest of my life here." "my boots are killing me." "I'll have to take them off." "I'll take off mine too." "Let's see who finishes first." "Oh!" "Mmm." "You won." "You won." "But now I realize it wasn't my boots at all." "It is this wire cage under my skirt." "nothing could be simpler." "Take it off." "I won't look." "Ay!" "I am waiting." "We want to go home." "Whoa whoa whoa." "Read my letters." "I want your answer." "He's very beautiful." "When he covered his eyes and I saw his perfect teeth" "I wanted eeeoh." "I wanted to devour him with kisses." "What a whore you are." "I give you my permission to speak to my father." "Senora. but I have to practice my singing." "eh?" "please please." "So is there a problem?" "You get the money I send each month?" "Don Leo. unlike my brother Pius." "Something had to be done." "Pius should have made a proper provision for my son." "he did not and I did." "So?" "I've come to ask if you can help him." "Who?" "Your nephew." "My son Florentino." "What kind of help?" "A job." "I thought he had a job at the telegraph office." "but I'm asking you to find him another job as long as it's far away." "Some port lost in the jungle where no telegraph." "A broken heart." "Yeah." "Hmm." "Hmmm." "How about Villa de Leyva?" "How far away is that?" "Oh" "about three weeks." "I am nothing." "I will not heal not for all time." "I'm struck by the lightning of love and burned beyond repair." "She's a splinter that cannot be pulled out." "everywhere I go." "she is." "Hello." "Fermina." "What are you doing?" "Turn off the light." "I want absolute darkness." "this is the first time" "I've slept with a stranger." "Do you love me?" "Don't be frightened." "We are man and wife." "I want you to love every every moment of our honeymoon." "I can't wait to show you Paris." "It is a a city of love." "You have a beautiful smile." "Thank you." "I think my sense of smell is overdeveloped." "that would be because your olfactory organ's" "I'm sorry I mentioned it." "Shhh." "Don't forget I have met them before." "I remember it very well." "And I'm still angry." "I've I've never been able to understand how your thing works." "How ugly it is." "Even uglier than a woman's thing." "Yes." "I think it has too many bits on it." "That's astounding." "My doctoral thesis was on the advantage" "I don't want a medical lesson." "No." "No." "This is going to be a lesson in love." "The black flag!" "That's the plague flag." "Give them a wide berth." "help us!" "Captain!" "They're dying of cholera!" "Cholera!" "Please!" "don't get too close help us!" "Captain!" "Help us!" "Cholera!" "Help me!" "Please." "Don't leave." "God!" "What's that?" "Help me!" "Please!" "protect her from harm." "my crowned goddess." "Go go." "Go on and forget all about it." "This never happened." "Who occupies that cabin the middle one?" "Three women." "Three women?" "They have three cabins and they both connect together." "It makes one big one." "these women?" "I don't know." "You go on." "We'll see." "Rosalba." "He looks very sweet." "And so shy." "It's the shy ones you must look out for." "it's fragile." "Get out of the way." "He's staring at you." "Bye!" "my vow" "I've broken my vow." "my son." "I had to." "Why?" "Something happened and" "Mama." "That's all." "But she's not here." "What do you mean she's not here?" "She's in Paris on her honeymoon." "She'll be gone a long time more than one year." "Maybe two years." "my son." "No." "It is true." "At least two years." "Mama." "Please don't cry." "Oh." "Please please don't waste your life." "You must forget her." "You must find someone else who will help you forget." "Mama." "Mama." "Mama." "senora!" "Be careful!" "Senora!" "boys." "Open fire!" "Transito!" "They destroyed my house." "Come in." "I need a bed anywhere." "Just until I can rebuild my house." "Who knows how long this war will last." "drink." "You must stay here." "So you have the room?" "No." "It is a shame." "My own bedroom is too small." "But if you don't mind sharing with my son." "Florentino?" "An emergency." "her house has been damaged." "War has no respect for anybody." "She needs a bed." "You can sleep in your hammock." "I'm so scared! now this." "He died three years ago." "help me." "My dead husband always undid my laces." "please." "Help me." "I've never been in the same bed with any other man ay other than my dead husband." "He's in his coffin now under the ground." "I'm so happy!" "I'm happy because only now do I know for certain where he is when he's not at home!" "Women." "Number one unknown lady in boat." "The first wondrous" "explosion." "Number two the Widow Nazaret only talks of her dead husband." "Number three" "Esmeralda Arau wiggling tadpole who'd walk me through the ferns." "Number four" "Maria Estevez very dangerous. anyone could have heard us." "This is the cure for the pain of Fermina." "What is it?" "nothing." "For a moment I What?" "I didn't know who you were. but it it goes." "Give me your hand." "Give me your hand." "Mama." "Work?" "What work?" "You need to find a job and to get paid." "I can't keep you forever." "I I I have something to tell you." "You are going to marry the widow." "no." "What did you say?" "Ma Mama" "Did you say you had something to tell me?" "I honestly believe" "I'm getting over the worst." "What was her name again?" "Fermina." "Fermina." "Fermina." "I begin to feel free." "The pain is gone." "It's gone." "to bring about this blessed transformation." "But here we are amongst our dearest friends." "We are happier than you can know to be here." "we are overjoyed but three." "The great purpose of marriage has made itself clear to all for your warmth and your congratulations." "I was wondering how long it would be before you came begging me." "What do you want?" "A job." "I gave you a job at Villa de Leyva and you threw it away." "It is different now." "I want to be rich like you." "I am not rich." "I'm a poor man with money which is not the same thing." "Why do you want to be rich? I need I need to be worthy of a great lady I cannot stop loving." "Who is she?" "Married?" "but I'm waiting for her husband to die." "Is he old?" "but I'll wait for however long it takes." "You're crazy." "Why?" "Because insanity runs in the family." "You take after your father." "my brother Pius." "You know what his last words were?" "He said "The only regret I have in dying is that I do not die for love." "He said that?" "He really said that?" "On his deathbed." "all his life he fucked everything in sight." "So you want a job in the River Company of the Caribbean." "yes." "are you any good writing letters?" "I too" "I enter a poem every year in the Poetic Festival." "but huh?" "Yes." "Good." "Perhaps you can tell me what this means." "On my birthday last year someone made a speech in my honor." "He said I suffered from lucid dementia." "Now what does that mean?" "Lucid dementia means you are clearly crazy." "I told you it ran in the family." "Start tomorrow." "Clerk to the board of directors." "Tamales!" "Tamales!" "Magic inks." "Very light blow." "Invisible ink for your secret letter." "Sir?" "I-I" "I would like You don't have to say anything." "Does she know you love her?" "Yes." "she loves you." "Yes." "Do her parents know?" "they don't." "What do you call her?" "My flower." "My flower." "this is what you could say." "My beautiful and beloved flower." "Nobody can cut the stem of our love. be strong." "Don't give up." "I baptize you in the name of the Father" "Don't give up." "I can't read or write." "I can." "I got this." "Would you read it to me and maybe write an answer?" "Yeah." "My beautiful and beloved flower." "No one can cut the stem of our love." "be strong." "Don't give up because our love is deeper than the deepest ocean." "Emilio." "That's that's a wonderful letter." "That's a wonderful letter." "I know just what your answer should be." "This must stop." "This must stop." "What must stop?" "Our coffee comes in strong brown sacks." "but never tire your backs." "these coffee beans and keep them dry by any means." What do you call this?" "A-a bill of lading." "A bill of lading?" "Yes." "In rhyme?" "Yes." "England." "Beloved sirs." "I write with all the ardor I can muster to thank you for your exquisite letter of 16th Aug." "My heart beat faster as I read each word. dare I say" "Adoringly." "This is not a business letter." "This is a love letter." "Love is the only thing that interests me." "Hmm." "the trouble is there is no love." "It must stop. you will be put to picking up trash on the dock." "But I need love." "I need love." "I need love." "Dona Blanca." "so nice to see you." "Dona Blanca." "You know my daughter-in-law?" "Dona Blanca." "my daughter was at school with her." "we paint at the park." "We met in Paris." "I thought her charming. a scandal in her family. her father has not ignored." "And now he's run away." "It's only to be expected from mules." "She does not eat eggplant and does not play the piano." "But she is learning the harp." "do play for us." "Yes." "yes." "I think not." "Serve the tea." "what news from the great world?" "Don Leo XII of the River Company says he's going to retire!" "he's been saying that for years." "who will succeed him?" "he has a nephew." "An illegitimate nephew." "Florentino Ariza." "Mmm." "Do we know him? but I can't remember what he looks like." "such an odd person." "Impossible to describe." "He's he's not a person." "He's a shadow." "Oh." "You know him?" "I have my period." "How odd." "I told my anatomy class that married women have their periods as often as three times a week." "When can we move into our own house?" "Not yet." "When?" "Not until your mother dies." "I married a weakling." "Would you have been better off with Florentino Ariza?" "You don't see him but I do." "How joyless I am now." "Would I have been happier with him?" "Poor man." "I am Dr. Juvenal Urbino." "I would like to see Don Leo." "wait." "Should be awake in five minutes." "And you are?" "Florentino Ariza." "Still asleep." "Please." "Would you like a coffee?" "Do you like music?" "I like the music of Carlos Gardel." "I see." "Popular music." "but we must keep performing the best music in our city." "We must import the greatest artists from Europe." "Hmm." "I am working on it." "And of course the Poetic Festival." "That was my idea." "I I started it some years ago." "I know." "I hope you will attend." "I mean to." "I may even enter a poem." "Really?" "How amusing." "one needs to raise money for these things." "That is why I am here to see your uncle." "Hmm." "Hmm." "My wife supports me in this." "I will say more." "My wife is the very soul of my endeavors." "Without her I I would be nothing." "I adore my wife." "Thank God he's awake now." "I welcome you to the Poetic Festival. this year's Golden Orchid will be presented by none other than my wife." "Just in time." "And the winner of this year's Golden Orchid is" "Wing Wu Peng." "What?" "!" "It's a scandal!" "What was the name?" "It sounded Chinese." "It's impossible." "Read his poem." "Yes. my heart goes out to you." "I know you must have entered a poem because of how the flower trembled in your lapel." "That's why I took mine off." "Your body is a holy garden" "Would you like me to see you home?" "go." "but" "I'm still very angry." "I understand." "But we should at least tell each other our names." "I am Florentino Ariza." "Sara Noriega." "Thank you." "Good health." "Would you like to see my albums?" "Your what?" "Albums photographs of public events." "you see." "Really?" "Of course I would like to to see them." "What is it?" "May I sit beside you and cry?" "Of course." "Of course." "Hmm." "I'm so disappointed." "I can't stop." "Maybe you should loosen your bodice." "It will help you to feel more you know?" "May I help?" "Tomorrow we do it in bed." "You are quite wonderful." "how would you define love?" "Love?" "Mm-hmm." "Love is love is everything we do naked. physical love from the waist down. divided love." "That could be a poem" "Divided Love." "it could be. a poem on divided love." "We can enter it in next year's Poetic Festival." "We'd be certain to win." "tell me!" "Yeah." "That's a good idea." "Divided love!" "Divided love!" "Divided love!" "Calm down!" "Calm down!" "horse!" "Miss?" "Calm down." "Miss?" "allow me to give you a lift." "Please." "Thank you." "Hey!" "Hey!" "I am Florentino Ariza." "Olimpia Zuleta." "Am I taking you out of your way?" "Not at all." "Not at all." "I would have been in terrible trouble if I had lost my parasol." "Why so?" "My husband gave it to me." "Oh." "Married long?" "Just over a year." "Just a bride." "my husband." "What does he do?" "He sells trinkets in the market." "Oh." "And pigeons." "sir?" "We're here." "ho!" "How do I thank you?" "You could sell me a pigeon." "They're not for sale." "Then what must I do to get one?" "you find her in a storm." "You drive her back to the coop." "This is how I say thank you." "Go away!" "Leave me alone!" "Go away!" "Go away!" "I don't know who are you!" "I don't know!" "Help me!" "Who am I?" "Who am I?" "And whose son are you?" "I'm yours." "Whose son are you?" "Wake up." "Look after her!" "Ay!" "I fell asleep." "Where am I now?" "Rosy Rosy Martinez." "Oh." "Who is this Rosy Martinez?" "From a children's story long ago" "Give her the breakfast." "Oh!" "At last you are here." "Oh!" "Where have you been?" "You're never coming to see me." "you little boy!" "Such a wonderful boy!" "And his name is his name" "Go on!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go back to your whores!" "You took advantage!" "The only disease you ever had was cholera." "Mama." "You confused cholera with love." "Mm-hmm." "Didn't you like the nice gentleman?" "Huh?" "I must see you again." "And for only one reason." "Not such a nice gentleman." "Senor Ariza?" "Yes." "The pigeon lady sends you this and says please keep the cage locked." "she will not send it back." "In many ways it was sinful." "And I am a saint." "I persisted." "I broke down her defenses and stormed the citadel." "Olimpia Zuleta never refused the meetings I arranged." "I got tangled in my own net." "I thought it would be the same as it was with the others." "Just another escape route from Fermina." "I found myself falling for her." "And I became a lover in pursuit." "I hunted her." "I was the lover who never showed his face." "I will never be able to smell turpentine again without thinking of this blessed afternoon." "wait." "What?" "What are you doing?" "You will see." "No!" "No!" "No!" "He told the police why he did it." "Doesn't mention you." "there's not ¢Ü there's not ¢Ü there's not ¢Ü there's not ¢Ü" "The sky is crying for Olimpia." "And so am I." "there's not ¢Ü there's not ¢Ü" "What have I done?" "What have I done?" "¢Ü Take me there ¢Ü" "¢Ü To where you are ¢Ü" "¢Ü Take me there ¢Ü" "¢Ü Take me there ¢Ü" "¢Ü To where you are ¢Ü" "¢Ü Take me there. ¢Ü" "What's the what's she going to the market for at this time of the night?" "Mama?" "whose son am I?" "I hoped your mother would have liked my singing." "I know she would." "I know." "The only regret I have in dying is that I can't sing at my own funeral." "Good people!" "Good people. we are gathered here at the dawn of a new century." "The 20th century will see the end of man's suffering." "The 20th century and it will bring us light!" "474" "Luisa" "Sunday school teacher." "My destiny in life is to love Fermina." "Senor?" "Senor." "Over there please." "come on!" "Mm-hmm." "Mmm." "Try it." "Tell me what you think." "Delicious." "Absolutely delicious." "What is it?" "Eggplant." "please. we should name our next child" "Eggplant Urbino." "I love you above all else." "More than anyone else in the world." "The important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability." "And love." "Nothing is more difficult than love." "they're very pretty. we wanted to thank you." "Sorry?" "You wrote letters for us." "yes." "It was the only time I wrote letters for for both lovers." "It was like writing to myself." "We're married now." "Good." "will you be godfather?" "of course." "He's our first son." "I will be honored." "I'll be damned." "You screw just like your father." "I just dropped in to tell you" "I've decided to retire and I'm appointing you president of the company." "please feel free to continue." "I swear on my word of honor that I have not seen your face." "please." "Shh!" "Shh." "Stop it." "You'll wake Fermina." "It's Sunday." "It's Sunday today." "You've you've missed mass." "You haven't taken your communion for at least three weeks." "Have you lost your faith?" "Doctor." "Yes." "Look at me." "What?" "What is it?" "Her smell is in my nostrils." "I have the right to know who she is." "Her name is Barbara Lynch." "How long has it been going on? nearly four." "Where did you meet her?" "She's a patient." "What is this this patient? a Protestant." "She has a mission by the harbor." "I thought at least you you'd be a man and deny the whole thing." "I thought at least you'd you'd lie to me." "I f I feel as though a great weight has lifted from my shoulders." "I I will put an end to it." "And I'll go to my confessor and ask for absolution." "it's going to rain." "I have been waking in the early hours of the morning and then unable to go back to sleep." "And I have sudden stabbing pains in my chest." "in the afternoons I" "I simply want to weep uncontrollably." "I think I am going to die." "That would be best." "Then we could both have some peace." "kids." "Go." "Aunt Fermina." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Do you still recognize me the fat old thing that I have become?" "It's been over a year not a hint." "Nobody knows where she is." "I have made myself believe that if she were dead" "I would have heard." "All I can do to keep myself sane is to follow my routine:" "sells flowers in the market." "Triola" "I-I don't exactly know who she was." "nothing memorable to report." "Routine is like rust." "I could stay here forever." "You should have come sooner." "You did the right thing teach him a lesson." "And what happened to the man who sent you all those telegrams?" "he's very grand now." "President of the River Company of the Caribbean." "Hmm." "Do you still see him?" "Of course not." "And anyway he's not a man." "He's a ghost." "It was all an illusion. what happened to your married man?" "He stayed married." "Three days!" "Less than that." "Can I take care of your horse?" "Uh-huh." "It is better to arrive in time than no?" "Hildebranda." "Juvenal." "God." "How good you are." "I must get the children ready for supper." "kids." "I'll go first." "I'll go first." "I'll go first." "I'll go first." "What are you doing here?" "I know you would be too proud so I have" "I have come to fetch you." "I I thought we might have a second honeymoon." "while the old man slept" "please." "Fermina." "God." "Thank you." "Excuse me." "It's been a long time since I've seen her." "Good evening." "Ricardo. is that her husband seemed younger than ever." "And I had this terrible thought that she would die first." "Heaven forbid." "Heaven forbid." "And it made me realize that I have grown older too." "Those stairs up and down those stairs will kill me." "I'm afraid of old age." "So" "I doubt I will be coming here so often." "Why are you so successful with women?" "Um because they see in me someone guilty." "In need of love." "Someone who will not harm them." "Ricardo." "What number are you on now?" "Prepare yourself for a shock." "I'm on number 622." "Impossible." "I speak the truth" "Some time ago" "I forget exactly when" "Uncle Leo asked me to keep an eye on the daughter of some distant relation of ours from Puerto Padre." "She was being sent here to college to become a teacher." "I won her confidence and affection." "the doors of heaven opened to her." "Her name is America Vicuna." "We see each other on Sundays." "what shall I say?" "Friendship." "the difference in our ages places us above suspicion." "Someone has died." "Huh-uh." "It's Pentecost." "it must be a a very big fish if they are ringing the cathedral bells." "Mmm." "America." "You must go back to college." "My driver will take you." "There is something I have to do." "Fermina nine months and four days." "That is how long I have loved you from the first moment I cast eyes on you un until now." "Florentino Ariza get out of here!" "Get out! insensitive human being." "How dare you enter my house on the day my beloved husband died ridiculous sentiments? which has caused me to think about you without wanting to." "Do you understand?" "I do not want to think about you." "Stay out of my life." "go!" "dear." "Let's not waste time." "I don't want to see a movie." "Do you know what I want to do?" "I have something to tell you." "please." "I'm going to get married." "It's a lie." "Old men don't get married." "Who is she?" "Do you want to cry?" "No!" "I don't know who she is." "she has ruined my life." "you must" "Florentino." "I'm warning you." "Please allow me to wipe the slate clean." "Age has no reality except in the physical world." "The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom." "Think of love as a state of grace but the alpha and omega." "An end in itself." "Think of love as a state of grace but the alpha and omega." "An end in itself." "The messenger is waiting for a reply." "what is it?" "Someone wants to call on me." "Who?" "Don Florentino Ariza." "The man who owns the riverboats?" "You know what they say about him?" "No." "They say he has never had a woman." "they say his tastes are quite the opposite." "They say he has a secret office where he takes boys he picks up on the docks at night." "I simply don't believe that." "I've known him since he was a boy." "He's an honorable man." "Everything in the world has changed." "I haven't." "Have you?" "What does it matter now?" "I've just turned we are two old people about to be ambushed by death." "Do you believe in God?" "No." "But I am afraid of Him." "Some of your letters were a great comfort." "I'm glad to know you received them." "What what I most admired about them was their simplicity." "They helped me a great deal." "In what way?" "They helped me regain some kind of peace." "You cannot imagine how happy" "I am to know that." "But I don't agree with everything you say." "We have nothing in common except memories." "The young people we were are banished that was all an illusion." "Not for me." "Well" "I thought this might amuse you." "That must be" "At least." "I have something to say. it's bound to be unpleasant." "These frequent visits from the man you are seeing are unseemly." "it's none of your business." "He is company for Mama." "He consoles her." "Consoles her?" "All he needs to do to complete his consolation is to climb into her widow's bed." "Ofelia." "But don't you believe that love justifies anything and everything?" "Love is ridiculous at our age." "it's revolting." "The only thing that hurts me is that I don't have enough strength to give you the beating that you deserve for being so insolent and evil-minded." "But you will leave this house right now and I swear to you on my mother's grave that you will not set foot in it again as long as I live." "let's not" "Life crippled that poor man 50 years ago because he was too young and now you want to do it because we are too old." "What I'd like most is to walk out of my house and never come back." "you you could take a boat." "Well" "I might." "I might just do that." "I have one." "The New Fidelity." "It's it's leaving soon. and five days on the return." "Travel is good for the troubled spirit. changing as we travel by." "Come in." "Are your quarters to your liking?" "It is the Presidential Suite." "It was my idea to install it." "I wanted to call it the Honeymoon Suite." "Do you want to be alone?" "I wouldn't have told you to come in." "Juvenal is a good man." "Is a good husband." "I can't imagine a better one." "I suppose there were more difficulties than pleasure." "Too many useless arguments." "Too much anger." "Maybe it's time what to do with the love that has been left behind without a master?" "It's incredible how one can be happy for so many years so many squabbles." "Damn it." "And not really know if it was love or not." "Go now." "Not now." "I smell like an old woman." "I have never been happier in all my life." "my love ¢Ü" "¢Ü What wouldn't I do for you ¢Ü" "¢Ü Just to take you for a second ¢Ü" "¢Ü Away from the world ¢Ü" "¢Ü And close to me ¢Ü" "my love ¢Ü" "¢Ü Like the Magdalena River ¢Ü" "¢Ü That it melts into sands from the sea ¢Ü" "¢Ü I want to melt into you ¢Ü" "¢Ü There are love affairs ¢Ü" "¢Ü That wait until winter to blossom ¢Ü" "¢Ü And get greener at night in the fall ¢Ü" "¢Ü Just like this love that I feel for you. ¢Ü" "Tomorrow we reach our last port-of-call" "La Dorada." "La Dorada." "And then turn back for home." "Don't look." "Why not?" "Because you won't like it." "I have waited for this moment for 54 years." "you you've told me before." "I have remained a virgin for you." "You're a liar." "sir." "Captain?" "how are you?" "Hello. would it be possible to make the" "Captain." "return trip without stopping?" "Thank you." "Without cargo without coming into any port" "Thank you." "without without anything?" "It's possible." "But only hypothetically." "the company has contracts to fulfill." "But there is one thing that could be done." "What is that?" "If we had a case of cholera onboard." "Ooh." "We'd hoist the yellow flag and be quarantined." "let's do that." "but you command me." "just give me the order in writing and we will leave right now." "my crowned goddess." "We're going to stay like this." "You can't mean it." "I have never said anything I did not mean." "And how long do you you think we can stay like this?" "Forever." "Forever? my heart was at last fulfilled. that it is life and not death that has no limits." "¢Ü I think of you every day ¢Ü" "¢Ü I think of you a little bit more ¢Ü" "¢Ü I tear my reason apart ¢Ü" "¢Ü And I keep thinking of you ¢Ü" "¢Ü And I keep thinking ¢Ü" "¢Ü Down the Magdalena ¢Ü" "¢Ü Down the Magdalena ¢Ü" "¢Ü I'm going to Cartagena ¢Ü" "¢Ü I'm going to Cartagena ¢Ü" "I'm going ¢Ü" "I'm going ¢Ü" "¢Ü I'm always sailing away ¢Ü" "¢Ü I'm always sailing away ¢Ü" "¢Ü Along with my woman ¢Ü" "¢Ü Along with my woman ¢Ü" "¢Ü Singing and singing ¢Ü" "¢Ü Singing and singing ¢Ü" "¢Ü Down the Magdalena ¢Ü" "¢Ü Down the Magdalena ¢Ü" "¢Ü I'm always sailing away ¢Ü" "¢Ü I'm always sailing away ¢Ü" "¢Ü Along with my woman ¢Ü" "¢Ü Along with my woman ¢Ü" "¢Ü Singing and singing ¢Ü" "¢Ü Singing and singing ¢Ü" "¢Ü Down the Magdalena ¢Ü" "¢Ü Down the Magdalena ¢Ü" "¢Ü Already many women ¢Ü" "¢Ü Already many women ¢Ü" "¢Ü Have crossed the river ¢Ü" "¢Ü Have crossed the river ¢Ü" "¢Ü Already in my memories ¢Ü" "¢Ü Already in my memories ¢Ü" "¢Ü Down the river ¢Ü" "¢Ü Down the river ¢Ü" "¢Ü Down the Magdalena ¢Ü" "¢Ü Down the Magdalena ¢Ü" "¢Ü I'm going to Cartagena ¢Ü" "¢Ü I'm going to Cartagena ¢Ü" "¢Ü Down the Magdalena ¢Ü" "¢Ü Down the Magdalena ¢Ü" "¢Ü I'm going to Cartagena ¢Ü" "¢Ü I'm going to Cartagena ¢Ü" "¢Ü Down the Magdalena ¢Ü" "¢Ü Down the Magdalena ¢Ü" "¢Ü I'm going to Cartagena. ¢Ü" "¢Ü I'm going to Cartagena ¢Ü" "I'm going ¢Ü" "I'm going. ¢Ü" "Subtitles ßy MühàmmáÐ Ü§mâñ"