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...world). In between, fasting involves avoidance of all food and drink. This is additional to the everyday expectation that Muslims will never consume alcohol, pork and some other things. If all this abstention sounds like a burden and a cause of misery, a conversation with Muslims or even a quick internet search may be enlightening. While I have emphasised avoidance and...

...world with my great-coat and boots, and put on contentment and idleness with my slippers. On the hearth-rug, Pepper, coiled in a shaggy ball, is asleep in the ruddy light and heat. An imaginative sense of the cold outside increases my present comfort--just as one never hugs one's own good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortune...