#818 “Lovebird” Furniture- Felisberto Hernandez
This is a bizarre little story, almost feels like something written by Kurt Vonnegut. A man is approached by another man on the trolley and gets tricked into getting an injection of something. Others also get the injection but seem to enjoy the experience. The next morning he begins hearing a radio broadcast from inside his head. The injection had made him a receptor for this station mostly broadcasting advertisements for “Lovebird Furniture.”
After a while the man can’t stand the constant stream of radio noise, but can’t track down the actual station to complain. He finds another injection man, who tells him that the broadcast can be silenced by taking new pills that are for sale. Nice satire on consumer marketing: Create a problem, charge for the cure.
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