In this post qualitative work of research fiction, the narrator chronicles a series of understandings of the personal and social functions of bedsprings. A fictional tale is used to present theory as situated and taken to logical extremes. The author uses a journal entry format to follow a series of conceptualizations of an unreliable narrator, conceptualizations that double back to disrupt the narrator’s sense of self and society. The object of the mattress is seen as an actor in its own right. Somewhere at the intersection of the desire for the mattress and its repeated physical construction, meaning and material are blurred.
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