The point isn’t it is on fire. The point is the roundabout way of getting it to be on fire.
Comment on xkcd #3114: Building a Fire
eksb@programming.dev 2 days agoThe cabin is already on fire in panel 4. It is clear what happened. Then the words explain the joke.
AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
thejml@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It’s a typical instruction delivery speech structure:
Hence the text in panel 4 completes the pattern.