27 boxcars all of them have your face

I was working at a carnival. Someone told me that the presence of 27 snakes in one of the carnival acts indicated that we would have at least 27 more days of audience members coming to see the carnival before we would have to close down for lack of funding.

(The carnival in this dream was directly lifted from Geek Love, a strange little novel by Katherine Dunn, a book which, as a reviewer states, should indeed carry some sort of warning for readers, indicating that some of the characters and images--an albino hunchback dwarf, a human fish boy, etc., and these are some of the more palatable ones, could be carried on in the waking life and the subconscious of readers for months, even those who are in the field of pathology and have seen some crazy shit.)