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light; to draw horses。 So then; who made them? The mander’s men searched

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the house。 I’m sending this note because this matter must have significance to the

investigation。 The children kiss your hands respectfully。 Your wife; Shekure。

I carefully read the last three words of this beautiful note thrice as if staring

at  three  wondrous  red  roses  in  a  garden。  I  leaned  over  the  page  that  Master

Osman was scrutinizing; magnifying lens in hand。 I straightaway noticed that

the shapes whose ink had bled were horses sketched in a single motion as the

old masters would do to accustom the hand。

Master  Osman;  who  read  Shekure’s  note  without  ment;  voiced  a

question: “Who drew this?” He then answered himself; “Of course; the same

miniaturist who drew the late Enishte’s horse。”

Could he be so certain? Moreover; we weren’t at all sure who’d drawn the

horse  for  the  book。  We  removed  the  horse  from  among  the  nine  pages  and

began to examine it。

It was a handsome; simple; chestnut horse that you couldn’t take your eyes

off of。 Was I being truthful when I said this? I had plenty of time to look at

this  horse  with  my  Enishte;  and  later;  when  I  was  left  alone  with  these

illustrations; but I hadn’t given it much thought then。 It was a beautiful; but

ordinary  horse:  It  was  so  ordinary  that  we  weren’t  even  able  to  determine

who’d drawn it。 It wasn’t a true chestnut; but more bay…colored; there was a

faint  hint  of  red  in  its  coat  as  well。  It  was  a  horse  that  I’d  seen  so  often  in

other  books  and  other  illustrations  that  I  knew  it’d  been  drawn  by  rote

without the miniaturist’s stopping to give it any consideration at all。

We  stared  at  the  horse  this  way  until  we  discovered  it  concealed  a  secret。

Now;  however;  I  could  see  a  beauty  in  the  horse  that  shimmered  like  heat

rising before my eyes and within it a force that roused a zest for life; learning

and  embracing  the  world。  I  asked  myself;  “Who’s  the  miniaturist  with  the

magic touch that depicted this horse the way Allah would see it?” as if having

forgotten  suddenly  that  he  was  also  nothing  but  a  base  murderer。  The  horse

stood before me as if it were a real horse; but somewhere in my mind I also

knew  it  was  an  illustration;  being  caught  between  these  two  thoughts  was

enchanting and aroused in me a sense of wholeness and perfection。

For  a  time;  we  pared  the  blurred  horses  drawn  for  practice  with  the

horse made for my Enishte’s book; determining finally that they’d been made

by  the  same  hand。  The  proud  stances  of  those  strong  and  elegant  studs

bespoke  stillness  rather  than  motion。  I  was  in  awe  of  the  horse  of  Enishte’s

book。

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