Video Games · 2011
When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!
— Cave Johnson · Portal 2
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Johnson rejects the familiar advice to adapt when life becomes difficult. His response replaces compromise with an impossible demand that the circumstances themselves be reversed. This is the opening excerpt of a much longer comic outburst.
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