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I’d  thought  between  the  deserted  neighborhood  of  the  dervish  house  and

here。 I didn’t know how I’d arrived on these roads lined with cypress trees。

However much I walked; a pestering thought wouldn’t leave me be; and it

ate at me like a worm。 Maybe if I tell you it’ll ease the burden: Call him a “vile

slanderer” or “poor Elegant Effendi”—either way it’s the same thing—a short

time  before  the  dearly  departed  gilder  had  left  this  world;  he  was  making

vehement accusations against our Enishte; but when he saw that I wasn’t that

affected  by  his  declaration  that  Enishte  Effendi  made  use  of  the  perspectival

techniques of the infidels; that beast divulged the following: “There’s one final

picture。 In that picture Enishte desecrates everything we believe in。 What he’s

doing  is  no  longer  an  insult  to  religion;  it’s  pure  blasphemy。”  Furthermore;

three  weeks  after  this  accusation  by  that  scoundrel;  Enishte  Effendi  had

actually asked me to illustrate a number of unrelated things; such as a horse; a

coin  and  Death;  in  various  random  spots  on  a  page  and  in  shockingly

inconsistent  scales;  indeed;  it  was  what  one  would  expect  of  a  Frankish

painting。 Enishte always took the trouble to cover large portions of the ruled

section  of  the  page  he  wanted  me  to  illustrate  as  well  as  the  places  ill…fated

Elegant Effendi had guilded; as though he wanted to conceal something from

me and the other miniaturists。

I want to ask Enishte what he’s illustrating in this large; final painting; but

there’s  much  holding  me  back。  If  I  ask  him;  he’ll  of  course  suspect  that  I

murdered  Elegant  Effendi  and  make  his  suspicions  known  to  all。  But  there’s

something  else  that  unsettles  me  as  well。  If  I  ask  him;  Enishte  might  declare

that  Elegant  Effendi  was  in  fact  justified  in  his  beliefs。  Occasionally;  I  tell

myself I should ask him; pretending as if this suspicion hadn’t passed to me

from  Elegant  Effendi;  but  had  simply  occurred  to  me。  In  the  end;  it’s  no

fort either way。

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My legs; which have aly head; had taken me of

their own accord to Enishte Effendi’s street。 I crouched in a secluded spot; and

for a long time observed the house as best I could in the blackness。 I watched

for a long time: Nestled among trees was the large and odd…looking two…story

house of a rich man! I couldn’t tell on which side Shekure’s room was located。

As is the case in some of the pictures made in Tabriz during the reign of Shah

Tahmasp; I imagined the house in cross…section—as if it were cut in half with a

knife—and  I  tried  to  illustrate  in  my  mind’s  eye  where  I  would  find  my

Shekure; behind which shutter。

The  door  opened。  I  saw  Black  leaving  the  house  in  the  darkness。  Enishte

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