fire, n.All

The patent for the fire hydrant was destroyed in a fire

Fire is exclusively an earth thing as far as we know --- there’s not enough oxygen elsewhere.

Fire is the only phenomenon so definitely reflecting at once the opposing values of good and evi.... It shines in paradise. It burns in hell. It is gentleness and torture. It is cookery and it is apocalypse.

Fire is vertical and anything vertical evokes fire.

Fire is the prime element of reverie, the first object, the first phenomenon, on which the human mind reflected.

Fire is the metaphor of metaphor.

Fire is emblamatic of the desire to change or speed up the passage of time... all that changes slowly can be explained by life while all that changes quickly can be explained by fire.

Fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill

Fire is fast --- a house fire will double in size every minute

Fire is an event, or a process, not a thing

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

Fire is the word that empties buildings, and sale is the word that fills them.

The Fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another.