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a wall built from time, and the patient mind that learns to climb it
means The state of being kept within strict limits — physically shut in, restricted to a place, or held in custody — and also the older specific sense of a woman's seclusion around childbirth.
from From Latin 'confinis,' meaning bordering or sharing a boundary — 'con-' (together) plus 'finis' (an end, a limit, a border). The same 'finis' gives us 'finish' and 'finite,' so confinement is literally the state of being hemmed in by edges. It reached English through French 'confiner,' and by an 18th-century turn of delicacy 'confinement' came to mean a woman's lying-in before birth — when she was, quite literally, kept indoors and within bounds.
- solitary effects
- Isolation can shrink brain regions tied to memory
- birth term
- Once meant a woman's seclusion before childbirth
- Houdini paradox
- He built fame by escaping what bound others
- quantum version
- Quarks are forever trapped, never seen alone
- prison reform
- Norway swapped cages for cottages, cutting reoffense
brenda meeuws case — new zealand woman held captive by her husband for 10 years in a locked room, 2004-2014
kidnapping of jaycee dugard — california girl held in backyard tents and sheds by phillip garrido for 18 years, 1991-2009
natascha kampusch case — austrian girl imprisoned in underground bunker by wolfgang přiklopil for 8 years, 1998-2006