“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”

“Boil your drinking water, and drink the water surrounding you in your bathtub.”

“When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.”

“Use the word 'ya'll' and before you knew it, you'd find yourself in a haystack french-kissing an underage goat”

“A blanket could be used as a bathtub tarp, keeping all the body’s heat in, and the police’s and murder victim’s wife’s eyes out.
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“It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time. You might know someone for several years, for instance, and trust him completely as your friend, but circumstances could change and he could become very hungry, and before you knew it you could be boiling in a soup pot, because there is no way of knowing for sure.”