Discovering Ice

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

Colonel Aureliano Buendia died. Not by firing squad. But after urinating. With his forehead pressed against the Chestnut tree. Tree that his father had been tied to. Tree of his father's ghost. Urusula remembers him weeping in her womb. Incapable of love. "He had learned to think coldly so that inescapable memories would not touch any feeling." Miserable solitude.