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Bayazid; the watchmaker’s shop (where I often came to fix the mechanism of

my broken clock); the bottle seller’s shop (where I purchased the empty crystal

lamps  and  sherbet  cups  I  embellished  and  the  little  bottles  I  decorated  with

floral designs and secretly sold to the gentry) and the public baths (where my

feet went out of habit for a time because it was both inexpensive and empty)

were all respectfully standing at attention before me and my tearful eyes。

There  was  nobody  in  the  vicinity  of  the  ravaged  and  burned  coffeehouse;

nor anyone at the house of beautiful Shekure and her new husband; who was

perhaps  in  the  throes  of  death  at  this  very  moment。  I  heartily  wished  them

nothing but happiness。 While roaming the streets in the days after I’d tainted

my  hands  with  blood;  all  of  Istanbul’s  dogs;  its  shadowy  trees;  shuttered

windows;  black  chimneys;  ghosts  and  hardworking;  unhappy  early  risers

hurrying to their morning prayers always stared at

me with animosity; yet; from the moment I confessed my crimes and resolved

to abandon the only city I’d ever known; they all regarded me with friendship。

After  passing  the  Bayazid  Mosque;  I  watched  the  Golden  Horn  from  a

promontory: The horizon was brightening; yet the water was still black。 Ever

so slowly bobbing in invisible waves; two fishermen’s rowboats; freight ships

with their sails furled and an abandoned galleon repeatedly insisted that I not

leave。 Were the tears flowing from my eyes caused by the needle? I told myself

to dream of the splendid life I would live in Hindustan off the splendid works

my talent would create!

I left the road; ran through two muddy gardens and took shelter beneath

an old stone house surrounded by greenery。 This was the house where I came

each Tuesday as an apprentice to get Master Osman and followed two paces

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behind him carrying his bag; portfolio; pen box and writing board on our way

to the workshop。 Nothing had changed here; except the plane trees in the yard

and along the street had grown so large that an aura of grandeur; power and

wealth  hearkening  back  to  the  time  of  Sultan  Süleyman  had  settled  over  the

house and street。

Since the road leading to the harbor was near; I succumbed to the Devil’s

temptation; and was overe by the excitement of seeing the arches of the

workshop building where I’d spent a quarter century。 This was how I ended

up  tracing  the  path  that  I’d  take  as  an  apprentice  following  Master  Osman:

down  Archer’s  Street  which  smelled  dizzyingly  of  linden  blossoms  in  the

spring;  past  the  bakery  where  my  master would buy

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