One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1967)

I happily recreated the Insomnia Plague of Macondo, which causes the village to lose their memories. To facilitate a kind of remembering, the inhabitants of the town begin to label everything; a brilliant concept reminiscent of an Oliver Sacks case study. The plague is finally cured when Melquíades the gypsy returns to Macondo bearing an antidote, and the first camera Macondo has ever seen, it being the way we fix memories to this day.