“I’ve become used to the customs: eating with my hands, from the same dish as the others, drinking from the same glass & washing from the little pitcher of water & sleeping now on a mat, beneath the open sky, listening to the snoring pilgrims from every land all around me. (People all snore in the same language-smile). People from every rank, from king to beggar, are all here eating & sleeping alike—of every color & class—the Hajj equalizes all.”
