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would perish to be reborn as the jinn of inspiration—only we could feel such

extreme  joy  by  depicting  bastinados  and  tortures;  only  we  could  color  these

implements with the gaiety of coloring a child’s kite。

Hundreds   of   years   hence;   men   looking   at   our   world   through   the

illustrations we’ve made won’t understand anything。 Desiring to take a closer

look; yet lacking the patience; they might feel the embarrassment; the joy; the

deep pain and pleasure of observation I now feel as I examine pictures in this

freezing Treasury—but they’ll never truly know。 As I turned the pages with my

old   fingers   numbed   from   the   cold;   my   trusty   mother…of…pearl…handled

magnifying  lens  and  my  left  eye  passed  over  the  pictures  like  an  old  stork

traversing the earth; little surprised by the view below; yet still astonished to

see  new  things。  From  these  pages  withheld  from  us  for  years;  some  of  them

legendary;  I  came  to  know  which  artist  had  learned  what  from  whom;  in

which workshop under which shah’s patronage the thing we now call “style”

first  took  shape;  which  fabled  master  had  worked  for  whom;  and  how;  for

example; the curling Chinese clouds I knew had spread throughout Persia from

Herat under Chinese influence were also used in Kazvin。 I would occasionally

allow  myself  an  exhausted  “Aha!”;  but  an  agony  lurked  deeper  within  me;  a

melancholy  and  regret  I  can  scarcely  share  with  you  for  the  belittled;

tormented;  pretty;  moon…faced;  gazelle…eyed;  sapling…thin  painters—battered

by  masters—who  suffered  for  their  art;  yet  remained  full  of  excitement  and

hope; enjoying the affection that developed between them and their masters

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and  their  shared  love  of  painting;  before  succumbing  to  anonymity  and

blindness after long years of toil。

It was with such melancholy and regret that I entered this world of fine and

delicate  feelings;  the  possibility  of  whose  depiction  my  soul  had  quietly

forgotten over years of rendering wars and celebrations for Our Sultan。 In an

album  of  collected  pictures  I  saw  a  red…lipped;  thin…waisted  Persian  boy

holding a book on his lap exactly as I was holding one at that moment; and it

reminded me of what shahs with a weakness for gold and power always forget:

The world’s beauty belongs to Allah。 On the page of another album drawn by

a young master from Isfahan; with tears in my eyes; I beheld two marvelous

youths  in  love  with  each  other;  and  was  reminded  of  the  love  my  own

handsome  apprentices  nourished  for  painting。  A  tiny…footed;  transparent…

skinned;

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