Some people lie in the daytime and others lie at night.
I find that those people who agree with me in believing in lying in bed as one of the greatest pleasures of life are the honest men, while those who do not believe in lying in bed are liars and actually lie a lot in the daytime, morally and physically. Those who lie in the daytime are the moral uplifters, kindergarten teachers and readers of Aesop's Fables , while those who frankly admit with me that a man ought to consciously cultivate the art of lying in bed are the honest men who perfer to read stories without a moral like Alice in Wonderland . Physically, it means a retreat to oneself, shut up from the outside world, when one assumes the physical posture most conducive to rest and peace and contemplation. There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. I believe one of the greatest pleasures of life is to curl up one's legs in bed.