BP oil spill, and One Hundred Years of Solitude

Yes, there is a connection between the horrible oil spill and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's phenomenal work.  What is the connection, you ask?

Macondo is the magical town where the Buendia family lives, and dies.  Oddly enough, the area where BP's rig was located was called Macondo:

The Macondo Prospect is an oil and gas prospect in the Gulf of Mexico which was the site of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in April 2010 which led to a major oil spill in the region.

Corporations give projects strange names, and this happened to be one of them. Remember the names that Enron had for its projects, such as Fatboy, Jedi, Braveheart, ...?

Ok, back to Macondo in Marquez's creation:

The novel chronicles the seven generations of the Buendía family in the town of Macondo. The family patriarch and founder of Macondo, José Arcadio Buendía, and his wife (and first cousin), Úrsula, leave their home in Riohacha, Colombia in hopes of finding a new home. One night on their journey while camping on the banks of a river, José Arcadio Buendía dreams of a city of mirrors named Macondo. Upon awakening, José Arcadio Buendía decides to found this city on the site of their campground. After wandering aimlessly in the jungle for many days, the founding of Macondo can be seen as the founding of Utopia^[6]José Arcadio Buendía believes it to be surrounded by water, and from this 'island' he invents the world according to him, naming things at will^[7]. After its establishment, Macondo soon becomes a town frequented by unusual and extraordinary events. All the events revolve around the many generations of the Buendía family, who are either unable or unwilling to escape periodic, mostly self-inflicted misfortunes. Ultimately, Macondo is destroyed by a terrible hurricane, which symbolizes the cyclical turmoil inherent in Macondo.

Well, the hurricane season has begun in the real world Macondo ...
The series of events, and the names that BP had for each of the failed maneuvers, like "tophat", will be funny and comical if only it were not so awfully tragic.

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If Marquez' Macondo story was one hundred years of solitude, then how long will this BP Macondo story run?  It might very well go past the latest August deadline--the gushing well might not be capped until December!
But, wait:

The ultimate worst-case scenario is that the well is never successfully plugged, said Fred Aminzadeh, a research professor at the University of Southern California’s Center for Integrated Smart Oil Fields who previously worked for Unocal Corp. That would leave the well to flow for probably more than a decade, he said in a telephone interview.