“…And now dare to tell me that the springs of life have not been weakened and tainted under this “star”, this net which ensnares the people…The riches are greater but the force is less; there is no more a binding principle; everything has grown soft, everything and everyone grown flabby!”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman.
Rise, and shine.
Not that I wish to imply that you have been sleeping on the job: no one is more deserving of a rest and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste, until, well, let’s just say your hour has come again.
So wake up, Mr. Freeman, wake up and smell the ashes.
-Half-Life 2