In my ambitious attempt to collate a list of books on fasting-the 'literature of fasting,' as I so pretentiously call it around my scholarly buddies-I have discovered a really disturbing thing: there are, proportionally speaking, very few books on the medical side of the process. Not because it helped my craft, you know, at all, but because it gave me an excuse to read up on a subject that has always bothered me and read some books not on the syllabus.
I might add that this 'spiritual discipline' element of my graduate nonfiction craft class (theme = "The Interior Journey") has been its most redeeming feature. That is, I've been fasting every Friday as a sort of experiment, partially prompted by a class that required me to develop and practice a 'spiritual discipline' for the duration of the semester, and partially prompted by my curmudgeonly attitude towards all things ascetic and a desire to figure out why people are willing to injure their bodies for the sake of their souls.
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