Pretty on point. "There was this weird lump in my throat, this tightness in my chest. I had this vision of the future — a ruined empire, run by number cruncher

Pretty on point. "There was this weird lump in my throat, this tightness in my chest. I had this vision of the future — a ruined empire, run by number crunchers, squalid and stupid and puffed up with phony patriotism, settling for a long slow decline."