We take very long baths in my family because we're water soluble and it can be thermodynamically very expensive to extricate oneself from solution.
My father lost an older sister to the bath drain when he was young although he doesn't talk about it very much. When her parents (my grandparents) decided the bath had gone on too long and broke in there there was no sign of her except her two eyeballs rattling around in the bath tub.
I like to imagine that one day she reconstituted on a beach somewhere but she never came back for her eyes.
Anyway I need money for medical treatment so I'm selling them. £700 + shipping to wherever you are. They're in good condition + I'm told she had no glasses prescription and good colour acuity. [Please don't purchase these to consume as food! Even though I never met her she was my aunt and I don't want these to be eaten by a stranger]
People are asking so I thought I'd explain some of the details:
1. It's on my dad's side of the family only - I don't get it from my mum.
2. Dissolving in water feels really relaxing and complete. You do kind of feel like you're going to leave yourself behind but it's okay because you're in the bathtub and you're not going anywhere.
3. Getting out of the water is not relaxing it sucks
For those asking if I'm ever tempted to leave life as a dry person behind and live unconstrained in the waterways, not really? Some reasons why:
This is the sort of thing I might consider in Switzerland, but the water quality in UK rivers is so terrible right now it's out of the question
I would have to leave my eyes behind
If I'm too dilute my consciousness will start to dissipate and that's quite a big life decision
My younger sister does talk about this kind of thing from time to time. When we were kids she asked me to pour her down the slide. She was pretty small so we found a 40l bucket for her but once it was full it was too heavy for me to carry. She says it still felt good to be outside in the sun like that.
