Thu, 19 May 2005

crack baby upset
My bathtub is cracked, and there’s a leak in one of the pipes, so I had to pull back a wall to get at it, and what did I find but a second bathtub stacked beneath the first, its porcelain painted with a bucolic nature scene. I got out the big heavy flashlight I stole off a cop and peered down into a space between the second tub and the wall, and I could just barely see a third tub, a painting of what looked like stormclouds on the small patch I could see. I suspect that were I to gather proper equipment I could unearth an endless series of bathtubs, one stacked atop the other forever through the earth, each a scene in a series by which I could glean endless insight into each and every event throughout history in both (in all) directions, but I had fixed the leak and was ready to take a bath, so I remounted the faucet, hung some drywall, nailed up the new wall and took a bath, looking for shapes in the porcelain.
(12:12.05.19.2005) [/ana] #