The thinker and the parrot.                            Once upon a time a  thinker  was  sleeping  in  its  hammock  when it happened that a parrot  dropped  by  to  ask him what  was  that thing he had never seen before.             _Well, waking up from a sound sleep, the thinker said,what  is a hammock is a question that makes me remember of Plato.I mean, at that time, if Plato were to think  of hammocks I think he would first look for definitions of it.              _The  parrot  not  wanting  to  take  too  long to get the answer  risked some questions  it thought would help him to get the answer fast:Is it a net? Is it a swing? Is it a web? I think it is a bed?              _The thinker said: Well may be you are right may be we should first  look  for  the definition of a bed just in order to make it clear what it is a hammock.             The parrot not wanting to wait for the answer still ads:             _Does the spider live in a swing or in a bed ? Does the spider sleep well ?              _Ok said the thinker: My little parrot , if you  want  to  know what is it I tell you it is a hammock but  if  you  want  to  know what a hammock is you will have to wait till I have it conceived  properly, since I am a serious thinker and you should have thought twice  before taking me out of my dreams OK and if you do not want to  become atoasted bird be quiet while I think and  I'm talking serious.             _Ok! Ok! Thinker ! go ahead said the parrot. I can wait for a while for your answer.              _ So you  please be patient. Well  let  me  proceed. Well  my  friend  let's  think  if  there  is  a special reason for hammocks come into existence? Who has contrieved this  artifact. Where hammocks first appeared? It is well known that hammocks have first  appeared  in tropical rain forests. My little parrot think what it would be like to  be sleeping on the ground and to be awaken in the middle of the night  in the forest by the rainwater or by the river water coming underneath  and soaking all of your mattress up.                Well that would be very uncomfortable wouldn't that? Of course being you the bird you are you wold not have so much to  worry  about theese things  since you live in the trees.  Then,  let's  firs  try  to  define a  hammock  as  an elevated bed to prevent the flood. Yes! that's  it, one could say. But, anyway, isn't it also a swing? Well in fact it is a swing too.              _ Ok! Ok! Said the parrot. I am satisfied with that answer. It is a swing. Thank you for the answer Sir. I am going now. Bye! Bye!              - Wait you little bird! I did not told you can go as yet!  And yet that it is a swing and you have no hurry since you did not thought  twice before taking me out of my nap. So ,be patient!  Let's think again.                 The Thinker goes on.....                In the tropical woods it is hot  and  there  are  many  kind  of  insects as you know. And if you had already gone  through  the experience of being in a  hammock,  swinging in it,  while you are at rest, you  would know that one of the  words to  depict  the  feeling you have in it is "refreshing" , specially if  the  hammock is made meshy and the weather is hot to the point of making you to sweat.Still, the swinging, besides refreshing your body,as I was going to say, also prevent some mosquito bites. So,  one could ask if a hammock is some apparatus to prevent insect bites or that it is some kind of tropical refresher.Yet after  that, someone could still say:  It is also good to sleep in it and to swing  and so on and no definition would  come  through.  Well,   I'd rather to  say,that a hammock is a bi-pendulous device with many functions and qualities.  Now I think we have a definition here! A hammock is a  bi-pendulous device.              _Now I understand,said the parrot, it is a bi-pendulous device              _Thank you for the answer. I will try to theory  of that.   Bye Bye Mister Thinker! Thank you for your answer.              _ You stay quiet you little bird! Replied the thinker.Now you  will have to wait till the end. And do not move till I have  got  to  the  right answer for the question you  have  asked  me  when  I  was  just  sleeping you little green  thing.  Let's  continue.  Someone could still   say " a park swing is a bi pendulous device as well isn't it"...Yes... let's say  yes... it is;;; right;;; but ... consider that a hammock  has  between  its  hanging points a greater distance than a park's swing does. Better, the  spread between  the  hanger  is  at  least  5  times the spread in a park swing and it is to lay in not to seat. Well I should say at this point that a hammock is  a kind of bi-pendulous swinging bed built from some kind  of  extendable  tissue  as  cotton ,  nylon  or  mesh  fiber  in  a rectangular shape which  lesser sides are gathered together to allow it  to be gathered and hanged, being the distance between the anchors  a little smaller than the length of the rectangular tissue what gives it,  a convex  form , allowing  its  user to lay in  a  webbing,  sustainable  and  relaxing bedding.             _ At this time the thinker looked up to the trees just to see the  parrot sleeping perched one foot. He picks the parrot, lays it in the  hammock and says : parrot is a bird that is  much more to talk than to think. Sleep well sweet bird sleep in a refreshing hammock while I rock this swing  for you , stay away from floods, mosquito bites and have good  dreams.                Note: It is known that indian girls used to born theirs babies  in hammocks.