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Dream of a Presidential Candidate From My Magnolia Tree
A tired man recounts a surreal dream where a dream girl fades and a drab man named K Elmer Quinn appears beneath a magnolia tree offering a presidential candidacy. He imagines Washington figures chasing power, while Quinn boasts of running for president to bolster himself, not the nation. The narrator awakens wary of an “ectoplasmic” government clerk and wonders about the cigars in his pajama pocket.
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Joe Stalin
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Billy Rose