Meme seeks Pilar’s advice after meeting Mauricio Babilonia because she is well-known for her astute tarot card readings. I don’t need cards to tell the future of a Buendía The ghost of José Arcadio Buendía, who is much more unbelievable to modern eyes than any technological invention, is one of the persons who refuse to believe in the telephone, therefore García Márquez uses humor in this passage. In contrast to their former belief that the magical and mythological realm was the only reality, the people of Macondo now have to accept both science and magic. Consequently, this passage serves as a pivotal point for Macondo. The residents of Macondo have no faith in technical advancements yet accept flying carpets and miraculous rains of yellow flowers as natural occurrences. The phonograph, the telephone, and the electric lighting are just a few of the many new technologies that have inundated Macondo since the introduction of the railroad at the time this passage was written. It was an intricate stew of truths and mirages that convulsed the ghost of José Arcadio Buendía with impatience and made him wander all through the house even in broad daylight. It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alternation between excitement and disappointment, doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay.
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