Fire (n.) 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 (n.) is the metaphor of metaphor.
Fire (n.) 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 (n.) is the prime element of reverie, the first object, the first phenomenon, on which the human mind reflected.
Fire (n.) is vertical and anything vertical evokes fire.