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This has the prosaic touch of genuine old-guy anxiety. Don't worry, OH, that kind of stuff only happens to other people
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It has all the ultimate despair of starvation and deprivation with your most familiar setting becoming a scene of absolute horror comparable to any other imaginable. Neighbors so close. The telephone so close but all out of reach. And with every noble push to fight out of it the weaker and more exhausted you become. And the horror when the deep resignation overwhelms you and you have to accept that this absurd, ridiculous situation is unbeatable and ultimately fatal.