Sunday, 24 June 2012

In praise of the heavenly hammock

The hammock is my Shangri-La -- or so it seems.

If I wrote a history of the hammock, I'd detail the texture of hamack-tree bark, record the number of hammocks Columbus packed for his return trip to Spain, and dig up reactions among Old World royalty to the slings that let natives sleep above creepy-crawlies. There would be chapters about hammocks on ships of sea and space, chapters on the complexities of weave. I'd think about princes in palaces swaying in the breeze. I'd think about hammocks in the trenches of jungle wars.


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