It was the morning after Jose Buendia's ceremony, Colonel Aureliano Buendia spoke to Aureliano Buendia about Aureliano Buendia speaking to Jose Buendia about Jose's conversation with Jose Buendia (son of Jose Buendia). Somewhere that night, Jose and Jose had decided that Jose Buendia (grandfather of Jose Buendia, Jose Buendia's father) had decided that Aureliano was the thief, not Colonel Aureliano. But by then it had already been raining for 20 years, due to the banana shortage. Then, a hurricane blew the house away - at last, a prophecy come true.
