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waiting;  but  see  there;  what  kind  of  sad  and  spiteful  painter  had  needlessly

perched that ominous owl on a tree branch?; who had included that lovely boy

dressed  in  woman’s  garb  among  the  Egyptian  women  who  cut  their  fingers

trying  to  peel  tasty  oranges  while  gazing  upon  the  beauty  of  handsome

Joseph?;  could  the  miniaturist  who  painted  ?sfendiyar’s  blinding  with  an

arrow foresee that later on he; too; would be blinded?

We   saw   the   angels   acpanying   Our   Exalted   Prophet   during   his

Ascension;    the    dark…skinned;    six…armed;    long…white…bearded    old    man

symbolizing  Saturn;  and  baby  Rüstem  sleeping  peacefully  in  his  mother…of…

pearl…inlaid  cradle  beneath  the  watchful  eyes  of  his  mother  and  nursemaids。

We  saw  the  way  Darius  died  an  agonizing  death  in  Alexander’s  arms;  how

Behram  Gür  withdrew  to  the  red  room  with  his  Russian  princess;  how

Siyavush passed through fire mounted on a black horse whose nostrils bore no

peculiarity; and the woeful funeral procession of Hüsrev; murdered by his own

son。 As Master Osman rapidly picked out the volumes and set them aside; he

would at times recognize an artist and show me; or winkle out an illustrator’s

signature humbly hidden among flowers growing in the seclusion of a ruined

building; or hiding in a black well along with a jinn。 By paring signatures

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and colophons; he could determine who’d taken what from whom。 He’d flip

through certain books exhaustively in hope of finding a series of pictures。 Long

silences passed wherein nothing but the faint susurrus of turning pages could

be  heard。  Occasionally;  Master  Osman  would  cry  out  “Aha!”  but  I  kept  my

peace; unable to understand what had excited him。 At times he would remind

me  that  we’d  already  encountered  the  page  position  or  arrangement  of

trees  and  mounted  soldiers  of  a  particular  illustration  in  other  books;  in

different  scenes  of  pletely  different  stories;  and  he’d  point  out  these

pictures  again  to  jog  my  memory。  He  pared  a  picture  in  a  version  of

Nizami’s Quintet from the time of Tamerlane’s son Shah R?za—that is; from

nearly  two  hundred  years  ago—with  another  picture  he  said  was  made  in

Tabriz seventy or eighty years earlier; and then go on to ask me what we could

learn from the fact that two miniaturists had created the same picture without

having seen each other’s work。 He ansself:

“To paint is to remember。”

Opening and shutting old illuminated manuscripts; Master Osman would

sink his face with sorrow into the wondrous artwork (because nobody could

paint  this  way  anymore)  and  then  bee  animated  with  joy  before  poorly

executed pieces (for all miniaturists were brethren!)—and he’d show me what

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