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Butterfly; Olive and Stork; not only for the sake of conversation; but to better

understand these living legends who were contemporaries of mine。

68

I  did  not;  however;  go  to  the  master  illuminators’  houses  immediately。  I

met with Esther near the Jewish quarter at a new bazaar that had an elevated

view of the confluence of the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus。 Esther was all

atwitter in the pink dress she was forced to wear as a Jew; with her large and

lively  body;  her  mouth  which  never  stopped  moving;  and  her  eyebrows  and

eyes  which  twitched  madly  and  signaled  to  me;  indeed;  this  is  how  she  was

among  the  shopping  slave  women;  the  women  wearing  the  faded  and  loose

caftans   of   poor   neighborhoods   and   among   the   crowds   that   had   lost

themselves amid carrots; quinces and small bundles of onions and turnips。

She stuffed the letter I gave her into her shalwar pants with an adept and

mysterious gesture; as if the whole market were spying upon us。 She told me

that  Shekure  was  thinking  of  me。  She  took  her  baksheesh  and  when  I  said;

“Please;  make  haste  and  deliver  it  straightaway;”  she  indicated  that  she  still

had quite a lot of work to do by gesturing toward her bundle and said that she

only  could  deliver  the  letter  to  Shekure  toward  midday。  I  asked  her  to  tell

Shekure that I’d gone to pay visits to the three young and renowned master

miniaturists。

69

I AM CALLED “BUTTERFLY”

The midday prayers had yet to be called。 A knock at the door: I opened it to

find Black Effendi; who was among us for a while during our apprenticeships。

We  embraced  and  kissed  on  the  cheeks。  I  was  wondering  whether  he’d

brought some word from his Enishte; when he said that he wanted to look at

the  pages  I’d  been  illustrating  and  at  my  paintings;  that  he’d  called  in

friendship;  and  was  going  to  direct  a  question  to  me  in  the  name  of  Our

Sultan。 “Very well;” I said; “ to answer?”

He told me。 Very well; then!

Style and Signature

“As  long  as  the  number  of  worthless  artists  motivated  by  money  and  fame

instead of the pleasure of seeing and a belief in their craft increases;” I said;

“we  will  continue  to  witness  much  more  vulgarity  and  greed  akin  to  this

preoccupation with ”style‘ and “signature。”“ I made this introduction because

this was the way it is done; not because I believed what I said。 True ability and

talent couldn’t be corrupted even by the love of gold or fame。 Furthermore; if

truth be told; money and fame are the inalienable rights of the talented; as in

my case; and only inspire us to greater feats。 But if I were to say this openly;

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