Here is the opening sentence of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s meditation on beds.:
With its four legs and its flat, soft surface, the bed gently accommodates one of our most basic needs: it is good to lie down in bed, and it is good to sleep in them through the night.
Well, you learn something every day.
Actually you do, if you are very young, or at least you are meant to.
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