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The trashcan in my classroom caught on fire last week. I grabbed the fire extinguisher. Not being the most technical savvy professor on campus, I didn’t exactly know how to use it, so I resorted to reading the instructions. One of my students had replaced the instructions on the extinguisher with the following:
When a fire is burning hotter than bituminous coal in the belly of a furnace and it requires not a little water, you’re in luck, for you have found the metaphorical Balm of Gilead to quench the flaming obstruction.
