I had never skinny dipped in my life, especially in the presence of other people.

He then lays certain silver money on the table, finds his hat, gropes his way down the broken stairs, gives a good morning to some rat-ridden doorkeeper, in bed in a black hutch beneath the stairs, and passes out.

Shias believe that Ali succeeded the prophet Muhammad as leader of the Ummah.

I could make out his image darkly.