Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Tea cup mountains and bathtub tubas

Tonight I had finished taking a bath and was in the midst of draining the tub when I discovered an odd oscillation in the drain plug creating a low-pitched tone. By altering the pressure of the plug, I could change the sound. Somehow the emergency valve above the main valve created a resonance chamber.

The sound was reminiscent of a didgeridoo.

I asked Pilar if she quite enjoyed my concert, and she said that she did.

As if this discovery was not enough, the dreaming universe presented me with a perfect image of a mountain in the bottom of my tea cup. The image was left by the small amount of material left in ether bottom after most of the moisture had evaporated.

I said to Pilar, "A tuba in my bath tub and a mountain in my tea cup; what does it mean?"

"That you're very happy," was her reply.

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