Especially since a lot of the inspiration for the QT verse comes from the Byzantine empire. Oddly, in the Arab world, having one's feet up so that the souls show is a terrible insult, on par with flipping someone the bird. Some part of me thinks the Byzantines, who were old enemies of that part of the Middle East, might have done the cushion thing on purpose.
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Date: 2010-06-13 08:09 pm (UTC)