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I was fired after being found asleep on a 300-year-old bed.

His incarceration means he has been oblivious to the way so many aspects of everyday life have changed - almost like someone who has been asleep since the 1980s.

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He’s the kind of guy weighed down by an internal inertia, asleep while standing up, stuck in a rut.

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Occasionally one will actually fall asleep on camera, only to be yelled at by Atlas.

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Or a recent report in the Washington Post about how the president keeps falling asleep during televised events.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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