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Introduction The title is a reference to advice I received years ago from a classmate about how best to approach the Bible, "with sharp eyes and a gentle heart." I'm a first-year master's student in Hebrew Bible at a Divinity School, a 20-something lesbian Jewish feminist, doing my best to follow his advice. I love footnotes, cookies, words and wordplay, and think that I'm pretty much the luckiest woman alive.

Please describe how you could take the peel off an apple all in one go:

Strangely, because I saw someone do it once and then practiced for several years. This is the same reason I can catch baseball barehanded a la Geena Davis in "A League of their Own"