Accelerate

Amplify

Arrive Already Apologizing

Become Someone’s Job

Become Visible From Far Away

Cut Deep

Destabilize

Escape

Feel Misaligned

Feel Misfiled

Feel Unspoken

Get Out Of Hand

Give Off Heat

Ignore Boundaries

Leave A Scar

Outlast Their Welcome

Outstay Their Welcome

Pulse When Still

Refuse Invisibility

Refuse To Stay Background

Reward Urgency

Spread

Transform Whatever They Touch

Tremble On The Threshold

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process

thing

earth

speed

phobia

Chuck Norris

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safety

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dragon

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 is also related to the process of change. Bachelard notes that slow change is defined by the process of life and quick change is explained by the process of fire. As he notes 'fire suggests the desire to change, to speed up the passage of time, to bring all life to its conclusion, to its hereafter.' In this sense, all that changes slowly can be explained by life while all that changes quickly can be explained by fire.' As Bachelard says, 'through fire everything changes.' Bachelard reminds us that when we want everything changed we call on fire.

Fire destroys that which feeds it. Simone Weil

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

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. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness. Henry David Thoreau

For Bachelard fire is the metaphor of metaphor (1938/1987:111).

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.

Bachelard writes about the surprising dichotomies of fire. 'Among all phenomena,' he notes, 'it is really the only one to which there can be so definitely attributed the opposing values of good and evil. It shines in Paradise. It burns in hell. It is gentleness and torture. It is cookery and it is apocalypse.'

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

To Bachelard, fire is the prime element of reverie. 'If fire,' he says, 'was taken to be a constituent element of the Universe, is it not because it is an element of human thought, the prime element of reverie'' It is almost certain, Bachelard says, that 'fire is precisely the first object, the first phenomenon, on which the human mind reflected.' Interestingly enough, a number of modern observers have compared television to fire calling it the 'electronic fireplace.'

is vertical and anything vertical evokes fire.

For Bachelard, fire is vertical and anything vertical evokes fire.

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

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

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