Parecidos razonables: Michael Chabon vs Gabriel García Márquez

In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.

Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el Coronel Aureliano Buendía habría de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevo a ver el hielo.