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From “The Hormone Pill,” by César Aira, a story in the collection Five, which will be published this month by New Directions. One day, a paunchy man in his fifties by the name of Rosales played a prank that captured his character to a tee: he swallowed a hormone pill from a bottle in the bathroom cabinet of his apartment. It was a prescription for his wife, meant to counteract the effects of menopause: countless tiny, pink, satiny pills in a glass bottle with a screw top. He took one out, examined it for a moment, and a thought occurred to him: he could swallow it, as a joke, without telling anyone before or after. …
摘自《哈泼斯杂志》(Harper's Magazine)第352卷 第2113期 · 2026年6月刊,César Aira。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。