Coffee Chains
Two competing coffee chains have outlets in several cities that Alex visits. Its branch managers hire him to sabotage their opponent's franchise or promote their own. One of those side missions leads to the revelation that both chains are secretly owned by the same corporation, confirming the implication of both of them having names taken from Moby Dick. This revelation handily foreshadows the shared origins of the WTO and Order. Both companies' names are references from Moby Dick, a nod to the Starbucks coffee chain.
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Famous quotes containing the words coffee and/or chains:
“you who put gum in my coffee cup
and worms in my Jell-O, you who let me pretend
you were daddy of the poets, witchman, you stand
for all, for all the bad dead, a Salvation Army Band
who plays for no one. I am cement. The bird in me is blind
as I knife out your name and all your dead kind.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“‘Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you—
Ye are many—they are few.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)