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mornings with freshly drawn well water; we reentered the house in the dead of

night; and it suddenly seemed that the elongated shadows we were casting by

the light of the oil lamp belonged to others。 Most frightening of all was the

horror that overcame us like a silent act of piety; as we solemnly washed his

bloodied  face  and  changed  his  clothes  so  that  I  might  deceive  myself  into

believing that my father had died at his appointed time; “Hand me his sleeve

from underneath;” Hayriye had whispered to me。

As  we  removed  his  bloody  clothes  and  undergarments;  what  aroused  our

amazement  and  awe  was  the  vitality  and  whitish  color  of  my  father’s  skin

illuminated by candlelight。 Because there were many more threatening things

to  frighten  us;  neither  of  us  was  shy  about  looking  at  my  father’s  sprawling

naked  body  covered  with  moles  and  wounds。  When  Hayriye  went  back

upstairs  to  fetch  clean  undergarments  and  his  green  silk  shirt;  unable  to

restrain  myself;  I  looked  down  there  and  ed  at

what  I’d  done。  After  I’d  dressed  my  father  in  fresh  clothes  and  carefully

cleaned  the  blood  off  his  neck;  face  and  hair;  I  embraced  him  with  all  my

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strength;  and  burying  my  nose  in  his  beard;  I  inhaled  his  scent  and  cried  at

length。

For those of you who would accuse me of lacking feeling; or even of being

guilty; let me hasten to tell of two further instances when I broke down crying:

1。  When  I  was  tidying  the  upstairs  room  so  the  children  wouldn’t  discover

what had happened and I brought a seashell he’d used as a paper burnisher to

my ear; as I’d done as a child; only to discover that the sound of the sea had

diminished。  2。  When  I  saw  that  the  red  velvet  cushion  my  father  sat  upon

often  over  the  last  twenty  years—so  much  so  it’d  bee  part  of  his  rear

end—had been torn apart。

When  everything  in  the  house;  excluding  the  damage  that  was  beyond

repair; was put back in order; I mercilessly denied Hayriye’s request to spread

her  roll…up  mattress  out  in  our  room。  “I  don’t  want  the  children  to  get

suspicious in the morning;” I explained to her。 But; to be honest; I was as eager

to be alone with my children as I was to punish her。 I entered my bed but was

unable  to  sleep  for  a  long  while;  not  because  I  was  preoccupied  with  the

horror of what had happened; but because I was considering all that yet lay in

store。

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I AM RED

I appeared in Ghazni when Book of Kings poet Firdusi pleted the final line

of  a  quatrain  with  the  most  intricate  of  rhymes;  besting  the  court  poets  of

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