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pictures; the amateurish shadows falling across rocks and tens of thousands of

cypress;  plane  and  pomegranate  trees  whose  leaves  were  drawn  one  after

another  with  the  patience  of  Job;  the  palaces—and  their  hundreds  of

thousands  of  bricks—which  were  modeled  on  palaces  from  the  time  of

Tamerlane or Shah Tahmasp but acpanied stories from much earlier eras;

the  tens  of  thousands  of  melancholy  princes  listening  to  music  played  by

beautiful women and boys sitting on magnificent carpets in fields of flowers

and  beneath  flowering  trees;  the  extraordinary  pictures  of  ceramics  and

carpets  that  owe  their  perfection  to  the  thousands  of  apprentice  illustrators

from  Samarkand  to  Islambol  beaten  to  the  point  of  tears  over  the  last  one

hundred fifty years; the sublime gardens and the soaring black kites that you

still  depict  with  your  old  enthusiasm;  your  astounding  scenes  of  death  and

war;  your  graceful  hunting  sultans;  and  with  the  same  finesse;  your  startled

fleeing gazelles; your dying shahs; your prisoners of war; your infidel galleons

and your rival cities; your shiny dark nights that glimmer as if night itself had

flowed  from  your  pen;  your  stars;  your  ghostlike  cypresses;  your  red…tinted

pictures of love and death; yours and all the rest; all of it will vanish…”

Raising the inkpot; he struck me on the head with all his strength。

I tottered forward under the force of the blow。 I felt a horrible pain that I

could never even hope to describe。 The entire world was wrapped in my pain

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and faded to yellow。 A large portion of my mind assumed that this attack was

intentional;  yet;  along  with  the  blow—or  perhaps  because  of  it—another;

faltering  part  of  my  mind;  in  a  sad  show  of  goodwill;  wanted  to  say  to  the

madman who aspired to be my murderer: “Have mercy; you’ve attacked me in

error。”

He raised the inkpot again and brought it down upon my head。

This time; even the faltering part of my mind understood that this was no

mistake; but madness and wrath that might very well end in my death。 I was

so terrified by this state of affairs that I began to raise my voice; howling with

all my strength and suffering。 The color of this howl would be verdigris; and in

the blackness of evening on the empty streets; no one would be able to hear its

hue; I knew I was all alone。

He  was  startled  by  my  wail  and  hesitated。  We  momentarily  came  eye  to

eye。 I could tell from his pupils that;  despite his horror and embarrassment;

he’d  resigned  himself  to  what  he  was  doing。  He  was  no  longer  the  master

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