Robert Stone · 1986
- What it is
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It closes in on you
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- Literary
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It closes in on you · it stays with you
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The walls come in on you · it leaves you thinking
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A good honest cry
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1986
It closes in on you · with fire in it
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