"Enjoy a bath now: clean trough of water, cool enamel, the gentle tepid stream." (U5.565)
"This is my body." (U5.566)
"He foresaw his pale body reclined in it at full, naked, in a womb of warmth, oiled by scented melting soap, softly laved." (U5.567)
"He saw his trunk and limbs riprippled over and sustained, buoyed lightly upward, lemonyellow: his navel, bud of flesh:" (U5.568)
"and saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid floating flower." (U5.570)
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