A love letter to my bed. From 1843mag
umans may not hibernate, but it takes only the first intimations of winter, and the changing of the clocks, to make many wish that they did. This year in particular, with a hard 20 months behind us and storms, fires and inflation ahead, we deserve a season of rest. Here am I, for example, in the middle of the afternoon, dreaming of bed: white clouds of duvet, crisp linen sheets, piled up pillows and a mattress that is beautifully firm, though never hard.
There are also the wonder-beds, in which sleep falls so softly and deeply that you wonder what on earth their secret is. The best I ever found was at a farm inn in the middle of Kansas, in a room completely decked out with dried flowers and pink-and-white gingham. I remember a heart carved in the headboard, but then I knew no more.
Many such beds survive, curiously short, high and heaped up in the middle, whether they are those of kings or of the common travelling folk who squashed into the Great Bed of Ware, which was said to take eight. Great or not, there is something poignantly levelling about a bed, in which all human beings, however grand, revert to the basic simplicities of nakedness, sex and sleep. And ever have done.
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