5 SEAT OF LEARNING
“Take you sandals off, that’s right, and put them in one of these pigeon holes. Now walk through this bath of water and shuffle your feet on the towelled step to dry them”.
He copied Sarah. There was a shallow stone foot bath between the door, which was pinned back open on hooks, and the stone staircase which seemed to spiral upwards as in a lighthouse. The walls in the vestibule were lined with small wooden boxes, many of which had shoes and sandals of all descriptions in them. As they were drying their feet, Sarah explained.
“Of course, washing one’s feet is purely symbolic. We haven’t actually got any feet and there is no dust to wash off them if we did have, but a large proportion of the students in the world are Asian, and they wash their feet before entering a h
