The lights are most likely to come back on at the precise moment you find the flashlight.

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• The moment in which you confront your own death is the moment in which you are most totally alive.
  Solomon...
• You have to know what you're looking for before you can find it.
  Solomon...
• Love is when you look into your lover's eyes and see God smiling back at you.
  Solomon...
• Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy.
  For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest...
• You deserve the gods you worship. --
  Solomon...