In his novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel
Garcia Marquez tells of a village where people are stricken with a plague of
forgetfulness, a kind of contagious amnesia.
The plague makes its way from the oldest to the youngest first by
forgetting the names of common objects.
One young man prepared by labeling everything. He wrote, “This is a table. This is a
window. This is a cow; it has to be
milked every morning.”
On the entrance to the town the villagers posted two large
signs.
1. “The
name of our village is Macondo.”
2. The
larger one read, “God exists.”
What is needful? Most
needful? Not what society tells you, you
must have but when everything else is stripped away, what do you really need?
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