Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism by Pablo Calvi

Author:Pablo Calvi [Calvi, Pablo]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: History, General, Latin America
ISBN: 9780822945659
Google: NDYSvAEACAAJ
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2019-05-07T16:05:38+00:00

In harmony with the space, a woman’s silhouette—long, gracious, slim, gray—moves across the room with a tray covered with small plates. On each plate there’s a Pravaz syringe and a glass vial with morphine. . . . Behind her comes another woman, thinner and more delicate looking, all dressed in white like a nurse. . . . She is in charge of administering the shots. Not everyone accepts the morphine.

I can see a lady, whose hands are a constellation of shiny rocks, nodding nonstop to conceal her cough in a handkerchief. She promptly accepts the tray. A slight smile illuminates her eyes. . . . The woman dressed in white approaches her and is ready to inject her in the arm. But the lady stops her.

—No!

Then, the hierophant kneels at her feet. She lifts the woman’s skirt an inch. She unties her pink stockings. . . . The lady reclines her head on the headrest, as if she were about to sleep. . . . The shot paints a smile of happiness on her lips. (Soiza Reilly 2008, 266; my translation)

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