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ornamentation;  the  trees  and  terra…cotta  shingles  were  depicted  in  different

styles  and  colors。  Once  the  text  was  written  out  by  scribes;  the  illustrations

pleted  and  the  book  bound;  the  reader;  turning  pages;  would  each  time

see  pletely  different  activities  in  pletely  different  colors  in  the

Hippodrome which remained under the same watchful gazes of the Sultan and

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His crowd of guests—who always stood identically; forever gazing at the same

area below。

There before me I saw people scrambling for hundreds of bowls of pilaf that

were placed in the Hippodrome; I saw the live rabbits and birds emerge out of

the  roast  ox  and  startle  the  crowd  that  had  descended  upon  it。  I  saw  the

master  coppersmiths’  guild  riding  in  a  wheeled  cart  before  Our  Sultan;  its

members hammering away at copper but never striking the one among them

lying  in  the  cart  with  the  anvil  balanced  on  his  bare  chest。  I  saw  glaziers

embellishing glass with carnations and cypresses as they paraded before Our

Sultan  in  a  wagon;  confectioners  reciting  sweet  poems  as  they  drove  camels

laden with sacks of sugar and displayed cages holding sugar…parrots; and aged

locksmiths  who  showed  off  a  variety  of  hanging  locks;  padlocks;  dead  bolts

and  gearlocks  as  they  plained  of  the  evils  of  new  times  and  new  doors。

Butterfly;  Stork  and  Olive  had  worked  on  the  picture  that  depicted  the

magicians:  One  of  them  was  causing  eggs  to  march  down  a  pole  without

dropping them—as if on a broad slab of marble—to the beat of a tambourine

played  by  another。  In  one  wagon  I  saw  precisely  how  Sea…Captain  K?l??  Ali

Pasha  had  forced  the  infidels  he’d  captured  at  sea  to  make  an  “infidels’

mountain” out of clay; he’d then loaded all the slaves into the cart; and when

he   was   right   before   the   Sultan;   he   exploded   the   powder   within   the

“mountain” to demonstrate how he’d made infidel lands wail and moan with

cannon fire。 I saw clean…shaven butchers wielding cleavers; wearing rose… and

purple…colored  uniforms  and  smiling  at  the  pink  carcasses  of  skinned  sheep

hanging from hooks。 The spectators applauded lion tamers who’d brought a

chained lion before Our Sultan; provoking and enraging it until its eyes shone

bloodred with rage; and on the next page; I saw the lion; representing Islam;

chase  away  a  gray…and…pink  pig;  symbolizing  the  cunning  Christian  infidel。  I

indulged my eyes at length on a picture of a barber suspended upside down

from the ceiling of a shop built onto a cart; as he shaved a customer while his

assistant;  dressed  in  red;  held  a  mirror  and  a  silver  bowl  containing  fragrant

soap;  waiting  for  baksheesh;  I  inquired  after  the  identity  of  the  magnificent

miniaturist responsible for the piece。

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