Thursday, March 3, 2011

Tempur-Pedic (2011: A Sleep Odyssey)

  
 


 


         The Tempur-Pedic system (mattress and pillow) is by far the most comfortable bedding I have ever lain awake on all night almost every night.  It makes sleeplessness a restful and infinitely fascinating place on the map, one I always look forward to (re)visiting.  This luxurious product is well well worth the expense.






        I believe that you could actually jump energetically on the Tempur-Pedic memory foam mattress and complete a round of calisthenics without upsetting a glass of red wine as they suggest in their commercials, but I'm not going to try.




    
        But, please, don't take my word for the benefits of Hypnos' and King Croesus' greatest gift to humanity.  

        Consult instead with our panel of sleep experts.





Eddie (l), Felix (r) evaluating




     "Pataphysics is the science." -- Alfred Jarry, Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll Pataphysician.
 




 King Croesus on the pyre, Attic red-figure amphora, 500-490 BC, Louvre, Paris





Fernand Khnopff, Une aile bleue (A blue wing), 1894, Oil on canvas, Private collection

Painting includes Khnopff's Head of Hypnos, inspired by Scopas' 350 BC sculpture in the British Museum.  Khnopff made several versions of Hypnos, in both sculpture and painting, and included an altar to Hypnos in his Brussels studio.

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