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dimwits; they came up with it all by themselves。

This brings me to my second plaint: I am not the source of all the evil

and sin in the world。 Many people sin out of their own blind ambition; lust;

lack of willpower; baseness; and most often; out of their own idiocy without

any  instigation;  deception  or  temptation  on  my  part。  However  absurd  the

efforts of certain learned mystics to absolve me of any evil might be; so too is

the  assumption  that  I  am  the  source  of  all  of  it;  which  also  contradicts  the

Glorious Koran。 I’m not the one who tempts every fruit monger who craftily

foists  rotten  apples  upon  his  customers;  every  child  who  tells  a  lie;  every

fawning sycophant; every old man who has obscene daydreams or every boy

who jacks off。 Even the Almighty couldn’t find anything evil in passing wind

or  jacking  off。  Sure;  I  work  very  hard  so  you  might  mit  grave  sins。  But

some hojas claim that all of you who gape; sneeze or even fart are my dupes;

which tells me they haven’t understood me in the least。

Let them misunderstand you; so you can dupe them all the more easily; you

might  suggest。  True。  But  let  me  remind  you;  I  have  my  pride;  which  is  what

caused me to fall out with the Almighty in the first place。 Even though I can

assume  every  imaginable  form;  and  though  it’s  been  recorded  in  numerous

books  tens  of  thousands  of  times  that  I’ve  successfully  tempted  the  pious;

especially in the lust…kindling guise of a beautiful woman; can the miniaturist

brethren before me tonight please explain why they persist in picturing me as

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a  misshapen;  horned;  long…tailed  and  gruesome  creature  with  a  face  covered

with protruding moles?

Like so; we arrive at the heart of the matter: figurative painting。 An Istanbul

street  mob  incited  by  a  preacher  whose  name  I  won’t  mention  so  he  won’t

bother you later on; condemns the following as being contrary to the word of

God: the calling of the azan like a song; the gathering of men in dervish lodges;

sitting in each other’s laps; and chanting with abandon to the acpaniment

of musical instruments; and the drinking of coffee。 I’ve heard that some of the

miniaturists among us who fear this preacher and his mob claim that I’m the

one  behind  all  this  painting  in  the  Frankish  style。  For  centuries;  countless

accusations have been leveled at me; but none so far from the truth。

Let’s start from the beginning。 Everybody gets caught up in my provoking

Eve  to  eat  of  the  forbidden  fruit  and  forgets  about  how  this  whole  matter

began。 No; it doesn’t begin with my hubris before the Almighty; either。 Before

anything else; there’s the matter of His presenting man to us and expecting us

to  bow  down  to  him;  which  met  with  my  quite  appropriate  and  decisive

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