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tree simply as such; as the Veian masters did; was here bined with the

Persian  way  of  seeing  the  world  from  above;  and  the  result  was  a  miserable

painting that was neither Veian nor Persian。 This was how a tree at the edge

of  the  world  would  look。  Attempting  to  bine  two  separate  styles;  my

miniaturists and the barren mind of that deceased clown had created a work

devoid of any skill whatsoever。 But it wasn’t that the illustration was informed

by  two  different  worldviews  so  much  as  the  lack  of  skill  that  incurred  my

wrath。

I felt the same way as I looked at the other pictures; at the perfect dream

horse and the woman with the bowed head。 The choice of subject matter also

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iritated  me;  whether  it  was  the  two  wandering  dervishes  or  Satan。  It  was

obvious that my illustrators had coyly inserted these inferior pictures into Our

Sultan’s  illuminated  manuscript。  I  felt  renewed  awe  at  exalted  Allah’s

judgment in taking Enishte’s life before the book had been finished。 Needless

to say; I had no desire whatsoever to plete this manuscript。

Who  wouldn’t  be  annoyed  by  this  dog;  drawn  from  above  but  staring  at

me from just beneath my nose as if it were my brother? On the one hand; I

was  astounded  by  the  plainness  of  the  dog’s  positioning;  the  beauty  of  its

threatening  sidelong  glance;  head  lowered  to  the  ground;  and  the  violent

whiteness  of  its  teeth;  in  short;  by  the  talent  of  the  miniaturists  who’d

depicted it (I was on the verge of determining precisely who’d worked on the

picture);  on  the  other  hand;  I  couldn’t  forgive  the  way  this  talent  had  been

harnessed  by  the  absurd  logic  of  an  inscrutable  will。  Neither  the  desire  to

imitate  the  Europeans  nor  the  excuse  that  the  book  Our  Sultan  had

missioned  as  a  present  for  the  Doge  ought  to  make  use  of  techniques

familiar  to  the  Veians  was  adequate  to  explain  the  fawning  pretension  in

these pictures。

I  was  terrified  by  the  passion  of  red  in  one  bustling  picture;  wherein  I  at

once recognized the touch of each of my master miniaturists in each corner。

An  artist’s  hand  that  I  couldn’t  identify  had  applied  a  peculiar  red  to  the

painting under the guidance of an arcane logic; and the entire world revealed

by  the  illustration  was  slowly  suffused  by  this  color。  I  spent  some  time

hunched  over  this  crowded  picture  pointing  out  to  Black  which  of  my

miniaturists  had  drawn  the  plane  tree  (Stork);  the  ships  and  houses  (Olive);

and the kite and flowers (Butterfly)。

“Of course; a great master miniaturist like yourself; who’s been head of a

book…arts  division  for  years;  could  distinguish  the  craft  of  each  of  his

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