I started eating again yesterday, after three days of water fasting. Some fasters get strange revelations and divine insight. One book has a character called Moses who comes back with the law after 40 days of fasting. The only illumination I had was actually during my first proper meal, where I struggled with a bottle […]

On 11-9 as the British call it, much of the world was thinking about the impacts of the planes that crashed into the buildings full of people a few years ago. Not so the spunky Catalan people in Girona. They were having a fiesta, with six foot wide pans full of public paella , and

David Blaine is some kind of ‘magician’ who is staging a ‘stunt’ in which he drinks only water for 44 days in a box above the Thames. The ‘magicion’ fears that he will do some permanent damage by fasting for so long. Pansy. 72 days is more like a challenge. More interesting are the completely