... provide immortality. This substance, however, exists only in the imagination. It is relevant because Petra can propagate money (gold) by her supernaturally rapid animal breeding. Also related to the stone is Aureliano Segundo's preoccupation with alchemy prior to Petra's arrival, and his later obsession with making gold fish in his laboratory. Garcia Marquez use of magical realism in his novel makes this conclusion a fairly valid ... one. In Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The Intruder" one woman is primarily involved. The story is told by a man writing down the account of ... time of ...

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