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gardens where lovers met on starry nights passed before our eyes: spring trees;

fantastic  birds;  frozen  time…We  imagined  bloody  battles  as  immediate  and

alarming  as  our  own  nightmares;  bodies  torn  in  two;  chargers  with  blood…

spattered  armor;  beautiful  men  stabbing  each  other  with  daggers;  the  small…

mouthed;  small…handed;  slanted…eye;  bowed  women  watching  events  from

barely  open  windows…We  recalled  pretty  boys  who  were  haughty  and

conceited; and handsome shahs and khans; their power and palaces long lost

to  history。  Just  like  the  women  who  wept  together  in  the  harems  of  those

shahs;  we  now  knew  we  were  passing  from  life  into  memory;  but  were  we

passing  from  history  into  legend  as  they  had?  To  avoid  being  drawn  further

into  a  realm  of  horror  by  the  lengthening  shadows  of  the  fear  of  being

forgotten—even more terrifying than the fear of dying—we asked each other

about our favorite scenes of death。

The  first  thing  to  e  to  mind  was  the  way  Satan  duped  Dehhak  into

killing  his  father。  At  the  time  of  that  legend;  which  is  described  in  the

beginning  of  the  Book  of  Kings;  the  world  had  been  newly  created;  and

everything was so basic that nothing needed explanation。 If you wanted milk;

you  simply  milked  a  goat  and  drank;  you’d  say  “horse;”  then  mount  it  and

ride  away;  you’d  contemplate  “evil”  and  Satan  would  appear  and  convince

you of the beauty of murdering your own father。 Dehhak’s murder of Merdas;

his father of Arab descent; was beautiful; both because it was unprovoked and

because it occurred at night in a magnificent palace garden while golden stars

gently illuminated cypresses and colorful spring flowers。

Next;  we  recalled  legendary  Rüstem;  who  unknowingly  killed  his  son

Suhrab;  mander  of  the  enemy  army  that  Rüstem  had  battled  for  three

days。  There  was  something  that  touched  us  all  in  the  way  Rüstem  beat  his

breast  in  tearful  anguish  when  he  saw  the  armband  he  had  given  the  boy’s

mother years ago and recognized as his own son the enemy whose chest he’d

ravished with thrusts of the sword。

What was that something?

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The rain continued its patter on the roof of the dervish lodge and I paced

back and forth。 Suddenly I said the following:

“Either our father; Master Osman; will betray and kill us; or we shall betray

and kill him。”

We were stricken with horror because what I said rang absolutely true; we

fell  silent。  Still  pacing;  and  panicked  by  the  thought  that  everything  would

revert  to  its  former  state;  I  told  myself  the  following:  “Tell  the  story  of

Afrasiyab’s  murder  of  Siyavush  to  change  the  subject。  But  that’s  a  betrayal

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