This brief description may not appeal to too many readers, enthusiastic chewers would be more likely to approve of Tennysons description from the Song of the Lotos Eaters: Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind . Countless thousands every week, in the capital alone, sit in their diwans listening to the gentle hubble-bubble of their sheeshas or madaas (traditional smoking pipes), conversing about heroic deeds and solving the worlds problems, smoking and sipping on water or cold drinks, waiting for their qat to take effect
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