28 January 1936 The immense satisfaction a good soak brings
Just a spot more hot from that supply which you have so lovingly conserved for this moment of scarcely perceptible diminution in that superb, that liquid, melting warmth that buoyantly enfolds you. To this haven you have attained through a barrier of scalding heat, through a frantic period of toe-dipping and flicking, with just enough self-command remaining not to ruin all by too easy a recourse to “the cold”; through a phase of immersion by instalment, when your legs assumed a lobster hue and you clenched your teeth upon the cry of parboiled agony. But it was worth it. You have achieved perfection. You reach out a languid hand to the hot tap and sink back into the depths lulled, comforted, secure, as the new water wells round you.
Related: The hot bath habit: from the archive, 7 October 1925
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