The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not …

Sylvia Plath
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The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality. ✨ Sylvia Plath (1994). Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
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