Assertion: self containment | /r/HasProperty | vulnerable
Facets:
value: to elements beyond the covers
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Just as the self-containment of a book is vulnerable to elements beyond the covers that would rush in to engulf the words, the writer's conceit of stopping or transcending time is as old as Homer's description of the shield of Achilles and Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for death.