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At the peak of pleasure; he cried out like the legendary heroes cut clear in

half with a single stroke of the sword in fabled pictures that immortalized the

clash  of  Persian  and  Turanian  armies;  the  fact  that  this  cry  could  be  heard

throughout   the   neighborhood   frightened   me。   Like   a   genuine   master

miniaturist at the moment of greatest inspiration; holding his reed under the

direct guidance of Allah; yet still able to take into consideration the form and

position  of  the  entire  page;  Black  continued  to  direct  our  place  in  the

world from a corner of his mind even through his highest excitement。

“You  can  tell  them  you  were  spreading  salve  onto  my  wounds;”  he  said

breathlessly。

These words not only constituted the color of our love—which settled into

a  bottleneck  between  life  and  death;  prohibition  and  paradise;  hopelessness

and  shame—they  also  were  the  excuse  for  our  love。  For  the  next  twenty…six

years; until my beloved husband Black collapsed next to the well one morning

to  die  of  a  bad  heart;  each  afternoon;  as  the  sunlight  filtered  into  the  room

through the slats of the shutters; and for the first few years; to the sounds of

Shevket and Orhan playing; we made love; always referring to it as “spreading

salve  onto  wounds。”  This  was  how  my  jealous  sons;  whom  I  didn’t  want  to

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suffer beatings at the jealous whims of a rough and melancholy father; were

able  to  continue  sleeping  in  the  same  bed  with  me  for  years。  All  sensible

women know how it’s much nicer to sleep curled up with one’s children than

with a melancholy husband who’s been beaten down by life。

We; my children and I; were happy; but Black couldn’t be。 The most obvious

reason for this was the wound on his shoulder and neck that never pletely

healed; my beloved husband was left “crippled;” as I heard him described by

others。 But this didn’t disrupt his life; other than in its appearance。 There were

even  times  when  I  heard  other  women;  who’d  seen  my  husband  from  a

distance; describe him as handsome。 But Black’s right shoulder was lower than

the left and his neck remained oddly cocked。 I also heard gossip to the effect

that  a  woman  like  myself  could  only  marry  a  husband  whom  she  felt  was

beneath  her;  and  how  as  much  as  Black’s  wound  was  the  cause  of  his

discontent; it was also the secret source of our shared happiness。

As  with  all  gossip;  there  is  perhaps  an  element  of  truth  in  this  as  well。

However  deprived  and  destitute  I  felt  at  not  being  able  to  pass  down  the

streets   of   Istanbul   mounted   tall   on   an   exceptionally   beautiful   horse;

surrounded  by  slaves;  lady  servants  and  attendants—what  Esther  always

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