These Dreams of You

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There have been presidents who have written, he thinks, but that’s not the same as being a writer. That’s talent when what Zan means is temperament. This is a president who’s devoted much of his life and energy into figuring out who he is, an occupational hazard of someone with the temperament of a writer but surely not a good thing in a politician. Isn’t a politician who cares about who he really is doomed? Isn’t a politician who believes that his identity is his own rather than the public’s destined for rejection? Failed writers should be something other than presidents. Radio broadcasters, maybe. At least the ones who play music instead of talk.