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One of these days I'm gonna wake up, before noon-

— Troy ‧ Reality Bites

A rumpled cream pillow stands beside a small alarm clock under a slanting beam of golden light.
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The speaker makes waking before noon sound like an ambition for some distant day. The modest goal and grand opening create the joke: a small change in routine is treated as a major future achievement. The unfinished phrasing leaves that promised improvement hanging.

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