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It's not a lake, it's an ocean.

— Alan Wake · Alan Wake (2010)

A lone figure in a small boat faces the sea where a forest lake opens into a vast midnight-blue horizon.
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Alan realises that the place he has entered is far larger and less containable than he understood. The change from lake to ocean expresses the scale of the mystery, leaving his apparent conclusion open to a deeper uncertainty.

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  • PolygonSelected wording, Alan Wake credit and game context; 2010 edition qualification checked in source review.Reference checked

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