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non-euclidean geometry in the bedroom
A couple of months ago I wound up seeing a tumblr post about The Burrito Method of getting a duvet into its cover[1], and promptly went !!! because I got myself a superking when I moved to London (a grown-up duvet for my first double bed!) and have Loathed changing its cover ever since.
The first time I experimented with it, I did it solo. The second time, I asked A if he would like to Share An Experience.
So we laid out the duvet cover, and we laid out the duvet, and we rolled it up, and I said "and now you invert the corners!" and wound up staring at my hands in confusion while I tried to remember exactly how the magic works. It was at this point that A started Voicing His Doubts about how this could Possibly Work.
Hold-on-give-me-a-moment I muttered, or something like that, and did the corner trick. A was still going "this geometry doesn't work. this doesn't work? this cannot work." as I started unrolling again.
A stunned silence Developed. Briefly. And Then Came The Denouncements Of This Witchcraft, followed by some more silence and a thousand-yard stare while he tried and failed to work out what in the name of fuck had just happened, geometrically speaking, and long story short-ish I'm not saying he's safeworded non-Euclidean etc but also...
[1] ugh okay edited to be a link from further down the reblog chain that does work, as opposed to the one that doesn't grump grump :-p
The first time I experimented with it, I did it solo. The second time, I asked A if he would like to Share An Experience.
So we laid out the duvet cover, and we laid out the duvet, and we rolled it up, and I said "and now you invert the corners!" and wound up staring at my hands in confusion while I tried to remember exactly how the magic works. It was at this point that A started Voicing His Doubts about how this could Possibly Work.
Hold-on-give-me-a-moment I muttered, or something like that, and did the corner trick. A was still going "this geometry doesn't work. this doesn't work? this cannot work." as I started unrolling again.
A stunned silence Developed. Briefly. And Then Came The Denouncements Of This Witchcraft, followed by some more silence and a thousand-yard stare while he tried and failed to work out what in the name of fuck had just happened, geometrically speaking, and long story short-ish I'm not saying he's safeworded non-Euclidean etc but also...
[1] ugh okay edited to be a link from further down the reblog chain that does work, as opposed to the one that doesn't grump grump :-p
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Gosh, you don't say. :-p
& you are welcome!
(From Fervent Discussion Elsenet it seems like this is much more useful if you're using synthetic duvets than if you have down, but if it sounds potentially useful to you instead of just "why... would I... bother?" then it's worth a try!)
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Oh that is fantastic -- thank you for the link! Alas re imperfections of the method for your purposes, though.