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painted from memory。 At the age of 119; this legendary master who’d never

married and had never even made love; met the flesh…and…blood ideal of the

beautiful  slant…eyed;  sharp…chinned;  moon…faced  boy  he’d  depicted  for  a

century:  a  part…Chinese  part…Croatian  sixteen…year…old  apprentice  in  Shah

Tahmasp’s    miniaturists’    workshop;    with    whom    quite    abruptly    and

understandably;  he  fell  in  love。  In  order  to  seduce  this  boy…apprentice  of

unimaginable  beauty;  as  a  true  lover  would  do;  he  schemed  and  joined  in

power struggles between miniaturists; he gave himself over to lying; deception

and  trickery。  At  first;  the  master  miniaturist  of  Khorasan  was  invigorated  by

his attempts to catch up to the artistic fashions he’d successfully avoided for

one  hundred  years;  but  this  effort  also  divorced  him  from  the  eternal

legendary  days  of  old。  Late  one  afternoon;  staring  dreamily  at  the  beautiful

apprentice before an open window; he caught cold in the icy Tabriz wind。 The

following  day;  during  a  fit  of  sneezing;  he  went  pletely  blind。  Two  days

later; he fell down the lofty stone workshop stairs and died。

“I’ve heard the name of Tall Mehmet of Khorasan; but I’ve never heard this

legend;” Black said。

He delicately offered this ment to show he knew the story was finished

and his mind was occupied with what I’d related。 I fell silent for a time so he

could stare at me to his heart’s content。 Since it bothers me when my hands

are  not  occupied;  just  after  beginning  the  second  story;  I  started  to  paint

again;  picking  up  where  I’d  left  off  when  Black  knocked  on  the  door。  My

ely apprentice Mahmut; who always sat at my knee and mixed my paints;

sharpened my reed pens and sometimes erased my errors; silently sat beside

me;  listening  and  staring;  from  within  the  house  the  sounds  of  my  wife’s

movements could be heard。

“Aahaa;” said Black; “the Sultan has arisen。”

He stared at the painting with awe; and I pretended the reason for his awe

was  insignificant;  but  let  me  tell  you  candidly:  Our  Exalted  Sultan  appears

seated in all two hundred of our circumcision ceremony pictures in the Book of

Festivities;  watching  for  fifty…two  days  the  passing  of  the  merchants;  guilds;

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spectators;  soldiers  and  prisoners  from  the  window  of  the  royal  enclosure

erected  for  the  occasion。  Only  in  one  picture  of  mine  is  He  shown  on  foot;

tossing money from florin…filled pouches to the cro

was  to  capture  the  surprise  and  excitement  of  the  crowds  punching;  kicking

and  strangling  one  another  as  they  scrambled  to  grab  coins  off  the  ground;

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