TE17 Mysterious Montenegro

the eternal dream that taught them how not to go underground face down or how to adopt the head of a crocodile and how to not be decapitated by the guardians of the Underworld). To smooth stones, Odysseus’s charpoy of taught rope in The Odyssey , there dreaming of the faraway nuptial bed that he carved for his wife now besieged by suitors. To the first headboards made of turtle shells and the arrival of pillows and pillowcases as luxury items and status symbols on Roman mattresses (already back then and even now the absurd and disproportionate prices of mattresses as “inventions” designed to last ten years if used with restraint and courtesy). To mattresses stuffed with feathers and lectus cubicularis (for sleeping alone) and lectus genialis (to go to bed and not sleep with another person) and lectus discubitorius (where the revolutionary custom of eating in bed is premiered) and lectus lucubratorius (for studying) and lectus funebris or lectus emortualis (for displaying the lifeless body and it occurs to him now that his current bed is all of these beds minus genialis and not yet funebris ). To the heavy and immobile medieval beds with posts and canopies, incorporating the little bedside table with reading material and candle. To the magnificent Renaissance beds. To the four hundred and thirteen beds (and the courtesans who played in them) of Louis XIV, especially that one in Versailles with The Triumph of Venus embroidered in gold thread on its curtains. To the “bed of justice” from which the kings of France ruled their court and parliament (the princes were sitting, high ranking officials standing, low ranking ones kneeling) and the most relaxed chambre de parade for receiving ambassadors and artists, like the first version of TV in the bedroom. To “my second best bed” that Shakespeare bequeaths to his wife, without specifying to whom he is leaving the first and best one. To the iron beds cast in the eighteenth century (free 204 Rodrigo Fresán