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their asses jutting toward the sky。

“If love is part of the subject of the painting; the work ought to be rendered

with  love;”  I  said。  “If  there’s  pain  involved;  pain  should  issue  from  the

painting。  Yet  the  pain  ought  to  emerge  from  the  at  first  glance  invisible  yet

discernible  inner  harmony  of  the  picture;  not  from  the  figures  in  the

illustration or from their tears。 I didn’t depict surprise; as it has been shown

for  centuries  by  hundreds  of  master  miniaturists;  as  a  figure  with  his  index

finger  inserted  into  the  circle  of  his  mouth;  but  made  the  whole  painting

embody surprise。 This; I acplished by inviting the Sovereign to rise to His

feet。”

I  was  intrigued  and  bothered  by  how  he  scrutinized  my  possessions  and

illustrating tools; nay my whole life; looking for a clue; and then; I began to see

my own house through his eyes。

You know those palace; hamam and castle pictures that were made in Tabriz

and Shiraz for a time; so that the picture might replicate the piercing gaze of

Exalted Allah; who sees and understands all; the miniaturist would depict the

palace  in  cross…section  as  though  having  cut  it  in  half  with  a  huge;  magical

straight razor; and he’d paint all the interior details—which could otherwise

never be seen from outside—down to the pots and pans; drinking glasses; wall

ornamentation;  curtains;  caged  parrots;  the  most  private  corners;  and  the

pillows on which reclined a lovely maiden such as had never seen the light of

day。  Like  a  curious  awestruck  reader;  Black  was  examining  my  paints;  my

papers; my books; my lovely assistant; the pages of a Book of Costumes and the

collage album that I’d made for a Frankish traveler; scenes of fucking and other

indecent  pages  I’d  secretly  dashed  off  for  a  pasha;  my  inkpots  of  variously

colored  glass;  bronze  and  ceramic;  my  ivory  penknives;  my  gold…stemmed

brushes; and yes; the glances of my handsome apprentice。

“Unlike  the  old  masters;  I’ve  seen  a  lot  of  battle;  a  lot;”  I  said  to  fill  the

silence with my presence。 “War machines; cannonballs; armies; corpses; it was

I  who  embellished  the  ceilings  of  the  tents  of  Our  Sultan  and  our  generals。

After a military campaign; upon returning to Istanbul; it was I who recorded

in pictures the scenes of battle that everyone would otherwise have forgotten;

corpses  sliced  in  two;  the  clash  of  opposing  armies;  the  soldiers  of  the

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