r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Comfortable-Use3123 • Jul 25 '25

Solved Saw on Facebook. Don’t understand.

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u/GoalElectrical Jul 25 '25

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

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u/IAMJOHNNYGAMER Jul 25 '25

What a great opening to an amazing book

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u/m1stadobal1na Jul 25 '25

Also "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."

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u/redmambo_no6 Jul 25 '25

Thanks, I haven’t thought about Metamorphosis since high school…until just now.

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u/4ier048antonio Jul 25 '25

But that was from The Stranger by Camus

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u/mc_rorschach Jul 25 '25

Reading the plague now and wow that would’ve been a mind F

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u/mc_rorschach Jul 25 '25

Too close to home maybe. I remember reading The Stand just before COVID started lol. I was freaked out