Summary

In "How to Start a Pharmaceutical Company," the narrator, Senora Carrington, invited two men from the highest society in Mexico onto a picnic in a cemetery. The story takes place in the distant future, and a law had been passed in which all electronics had been banned. A man approached the narrator and gave her a small casket. When her guests left, she opened the casket and found the tiny body of Joseph Stalin. She did not know who he was, but the strange man that gave her the casket told her that the body could be used to make pharmaceuticals. She started a pharmaceutical company with the body, and lived a comfortable life.

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