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"If they had any inkling whatsoever that man should have been suspended pending an investigation."

But even if the hope goes, that microscopic inkling — the one that convinces us even fiction might have some truth to it — lingers.

"I got a little inkling of what Superman feels like when he puts his knickers on," Cullen laughs.

Yet despair shrouds Vuong’s characters, immigrants and other outsiders for whom the American Dream isn’t an inkling.

His followers have physically threatened those few who showed any inkling that they might oppose him and his executioner, Elon Musk, a man charged with the destruction of the federal workforce.