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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/bernd-brunner/the_art_of_lying_down.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/bernd-brunner/the_art_of_lying_down_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="The Art of Lying Down" alt ="The Art of Lying Down"/></a><br//>"A strange and dreamy voice . . . , like an Italo Calvino short story, curiously translated from some lost, obscure language." <br> --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love<br><br>An utterly charming study of the history of lying down--which is more complicated than you might think<br><br> We spend a good third of our lives lying down: sleeping, dreaming, making love, thinking, reading, and getting well. Bernd Brunner's ode to lying down is a rich exploration of cultural history and an entertaining collection of tales, ranging from the history of the mattress to the "slow living movement" to Stone Age repose--when people did not sleep lying down--and beyond. He approaches the horizontal state from a number of directions, but never loses his keen sense for the odd or unusual detail.<br><br> Far from being a pose of passivity or laziness, lying down can be a protest, a chance to gather thoughts or change your point of view--the other side to our...]]></description>
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