'I must be shutting up like a telescope."
I would use for 'shut up' sth else than recolligere, since it already means 'to collect, to gather'. Unless I'm wrong.
(btw, Alice kept while she was walking to the March Hare a piece of a mushroom in the left, not in the right hand.

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Pote gentilmente corrigere mios errores ? Face lo in "Adjuta con interlingua". Scriba clamando me per nome del usator in tema. Moderatores poten tamben corrigere mias messages originales, explicando correcciones como un appendice a basso.