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delirium
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She spent nights awake shaking with fever, fighting against delirium,
Chpt 5 *

delirium = a usually brief state of mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations
Intoxicated by the evidence of the miracle, he forgot at that moment about the frustration of his delirious undertakings and Melquiades' body, abandoned to the appetite of the squids.†
Chpt 1
She fell into a state of feverish prostration, lost consciousness, and her heart went into a shameless delirium.†
Chpt 4
That afternoon, while Ursula was trying to rescue Rebeca from the slough of delirium, he went with Magnifico Visbal and Gerineldo Marquez to Catarino's store.†
Chpt 4
Only the vigilance and care of Rebeca kept him from being dragged off by his imagination into a state of perpetual delirium from which he would not recover.†
Chpt 4
For a long time she kept on smelling Pietro Crespi's lavender breath at dusk, but she had the strength not to succumb to delirium.†
Chpt 6
Nevertheless, Arcadio was a solitary and frightened child during the insomnia plague, in the midst of Ursula's utilitarian fervor, during the delirium of Jose Arcadio Buendia, the hermetism of Aureliano, and the mortal rivalry between Amaranta and Rebeca.†
Chpt 6
That episode drew Amaranta out of her delirium.†
Chpt 8
It was a delirious prosperity that even made him laugh, and he could not help doing crazy things to release his good humor.†
Chpt 10
They were the promoters of the bloody carnival that plunged Macondo into delirium for three days and whose only lasting consequence was having given Aureliano Segundo the opportunity to meet Fernanda del Carpio.†
Chpt 10
Until midnight the strangers, disguised as bedouins, took part in the delirium and even enriched it with sumptuous fireworks and acrobatic skills that made one think of the art of the gypsies.†
Chpt 10
Aureliano Triste, with the cross of ashes on his forehead, set up on the edge of town the ice factory that Jose Arcadio Buendia had dreamed of in his inventive delirium.†
Chpt 11
Nevertheless, in the emptiness of so many women who came into his life in the same way, he did not remember that she was the one who in the delirium of that first meeting was on the point of foundering in her own tears and scarcely an hour before her death had sworn to love him until she died.†
Chpt 13
Tired of that hermeneutical delirium, the workers turned away from the authorities in Macondo and brought their complaints up to the higher courts.†
Chpt 15
During the course of the first week he became accustomed to the inroads that time and the rain had made in the health of his concubine, and little by little he was seeing her as she had been before, remembering her jubilant excesses and the delirious fertility that her love provoked in the animals, and partly through love, partly through interest, one night during the second week he awoke her with urgent caresses.†
Chpt 16
Overcome by an exploratory delirium comparable only to that of his great-grandfather when he was searching for the route of inventions, Aureliano Segundo lost the last layers of fat that he had left and the old resemblance to his twin brother was becoming accentuated again, not only because of his slim figure, but also because of the distant air and the withdrawn attitude.†
Chpt 16
Aureliano Segundo tried to take advantage of her delirium to get her to ten him where the gold was buried, but his entreaties were useless once more "When the owner appears," Ursula said, "God will illuminate him so that he will find it."†
Chpt 17
Jose Arcadio, who left the seminary as soon as he reached Rome, continued nourishing the legend of theology and canon law so as not to jeopardize the fabulous inheritance of which his mother's delirious letters spoke and which would rescue him from the misery and sordidness he shared with two friends in a Trastevere garret.†
Chpt 18
It was sufficient to lift the broken slabs in the corner where Ursula's bed had always stood and where the glow was most intense to find the secret crypt that Aureliano Segundo had worn himself out searching for during the delirium of his excavations.†
Chpt 18
But when they saw themselves alone in the house they succumbed to the delirium of lovers who were making up for lost time.†
Chpt 20
During the pauses in their delirium, Amaranta Ursula would answer Gaston's letters.†
Chpt 20
The old woman who opened the door with a lamp in her hand took pity on his delirium and insisted that, no, there had never been a pharmacy there, nor had she ever known a woman with a thin neck and sleepy eyes named Mercedes.†
Chpt 20

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(1) (delirium as in: fever induced delirium)
a usually brief state of mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations

Delirium can result from high fever, intoxication, withdrawal, brain injury, and many other causes.
(2) (delirium as in: delirious with joy)
a state of having been taken over by excitement or emotion
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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