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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

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Manuel Puig
Age: 57 †
Born: 1932
Born: December 28
Died: 1990
Died: July 22
Author
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne
Dreams
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Nocturnal
Synthesis
Simplify
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