fasting has interposed itself as a moderator and interrupted your continual self-indulgence, it will show you that eating is desired so long as it is postponed. Accordingly, if you wish to prepare yourself a table that arouses desire, accept the change introduced by fasting. But because you are overly attached to self-indulgence, you have failed to notice that you make self-indulgence banal to yourself and destroy its pleasure by love of pleasure. For while there is nothing so desirable that it does