Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd …

Margaret Atwood
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Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. ✨ Margaret Atwood (1986). The Handmaid's Tale, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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