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aspect; and another side of their bodies; faces the book lover who happens to

be gazing at the magnificent painting。 If I do have style and character; it’s not

only hidden in my artwork; but in my crime and in my words as well! Yes; try

to discover who I am from the color of my words!

I;  too;  know  that  if  you  catch  me;  it’ll  bring  consolation  to  unfortunate

Elegant Effendi’s miserable soul。 They’re shoveling dirt on him as I stand here

beneath trees; amid chirping birds; watching the gilded waters of the Golden

Horn and the leaden domes of Istanbul; and discovering anew how wonderful

it is to be alive。 Pathetic Elegant Effendi; soon after he joined the circle of that

fierce…browed preacher from Erzurum; he stopped liking me pletely; yet; in

the  twenty…five  years  that  we  illustrated  books  for  Our  Sultan;  there  were

times  when  we  felt  very  close  to  each  other。  Twenty  years  ago;  we  became

friends  while  working  on  a  royal  history  in  verse  for  the  late  father  of  our

present  sultan。  But  we  were  never  closer  than  when  working  on  the  eight

illustrated  plates  that  were  to  acpany  a  collection  of  Fuzuli  poems。  One

summer evening back then; as a concession to his understandable but illogical

desires—apparently  a  miniaturist  ought  to  feel  in  his  soul  the  text  he’s

illustrating—I  came  here  and  patiently  listened  to  him  pretentiously  recite

lines from Fuzuli’s collected works as flocks of swallows fluttered above us in a

frenzy。 I still recall a line recited that evening: “I am not me but eternally thee。”

I’ve always wondered how one might illustrate this line。

I ran to his house as soon as I learned that his body had been found。 There;

the diminutive garden where we once sat and recited poetry; now covered in

snow; seemed diminished; just like any garden revisited after a period of years。

His  house  was  that  way;  too。  From  the  next  room;  I  could  hear  the  wails  of

women;  and  their  exaggerated  exclamations;  mounting  as  if  they  were

peting with each other。 When his eldest brother spoke; I listened intently:

The face of our forlorn brother Elegant was practically destroyed; and his head

was smashed。 After he was removed from the bottom of the well where he’d

lain for four days; his brothers scarcely knew him; and his poor wife; Kalbiye;

whom   they’d   brought   from   the   house;   was   forced   to   identify   the

unrecognizable body in the dark of night by its torn and tattered clothing。 I

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was reminded of a depiction of the Midian merchants pulling Joseph from the

pit  into  which  he’d  been  cast  by  his  jealous  brothers。  I  quite  enjoy  painting

this scene from the romance of Joseph and Zuleyha; for it reminds us tha

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