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illustration; the likes of which I’d never before seen; depicting; say; Satan slyly

boarding Noah’s ark。

We watched as hundreds of shahs; kings; sultans and khans—who’d ruled

from the thrones of various kingdoms and empires from the time of Tamerlane

to  Sultan  Süleyman  the  Magnificent—happily  and  excitedly  hunted  gazelles;

lions  and  rabbits。  We  saw  how  even  the  Devil  bit  his  finger  and  recoiled  in

embarrassment at the shameless man who stood upon scraps of wood tied to

the back legs of a camel so he could violate the poor animal。 In an Arabic book

that had e by way of Baghdad; we watched the flight of the merchant who

clung to the feet of a mythical bird as he spanned the seas。 In the next volume;

which opened by itself to the first page; we saw the scene that Shekure and I

loved the most; in which Shirin beheld Hüsrev’s picture hanging from a branch

and fell in love with him。 Then; looking at an illustration that brought to life

the inner workings of a plicated clock made from bobbins and metal balls;

birds and Arabic statuettes seated on the back of an elephant; we remembered

time。

I  don’t  know  how  much  more  time  we  spent  examining  book  after  book

and illustration after illustration in this manner。 It was as if the unchanging;

frozen  golden  time  revealed  in  the  pictures  and  stories  we  viewed  had

thoroughly  mingled  with  the  damp  and  moldy  time  we  experienced  in  the

Treasury。 It seemed that these illuminated pages; created over the centuries by

the lavish expenditure of eyesight in the workshops of countless shahs; khans

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and sultans; would e to life; as would the objects that seemed to besiege

us:  The  helmets;  scimitars;  daggers  with  diamond…studded  handles;  armor;

porcelain cups from China; dusty and delicate lutes; and the pearl…embellished

cushions and kilims—the likes of which we’d seen in countless illustrations。

“I  now  understand  that  by  furtively  and  gradually  re…creating  the  same

pictures  for  hundreds  and  hundreds  of  years;  thousands  of  artists  had

cunningly depicted the gradual transformation of their world into another。”

I’ll  be  first  to  admit  that  I  didn’t  pletely  understand  what  the  great

master meant。 But the close attention my master had shown to the thousands

of pictures made over the last two hundred years from Bukhara to Herat; from

Tabriz to Baghdad and all the way to Istanbul; had far exceeded the search for a

clue in the depiction of some horse’s nostrils。 We’d participated in a kind of

melancholy  elegy  to  the  inspiration;  talent  and  patience  of  all  the  masters

who’d painted and illuminated in these lands over the years。

For this reason; when the doors of the Treasury were opened at the time of

the evening prayer and Master Osman explained to me that he had no desire

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