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Effendi and after walking from Konya to Sivas in three nights; through eight

villages; begging all the way; one night we were beset by such cold and snow

that  we  two  dervishes;  hugging  each  other  tightly;  fell  asleep  and  froze  to

death。  Just  before  dying  I  had  a  dream:  I  was  the  subject  of  a  painting  that

entered Heaven after thousands and thousands of years。

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IT IS I; MASTER OSMAN

They tell a story in Bukhara that dates back to the time of Abdullah Khan。 This

Uzbek Khan was a suspicious ruler; and though he didn’t object to more than

one  artist’s  brush  contributing  to  the  same  illustration;  he  was  opposed  to

painters copying from one another’s pages—because this made it impossible

to determine which of the artists brazenly copying from one another was to

blame  for  an  error。  More  importantly;  after  a  time;  instead  of  pushing

themselves  to  seek  out  God’s  memories  within  the  darkness;  pilfering

miniaturists would lazily seek out whatever they saw over the shoulder of the

artist  beside  them。  For  this  reason;  the  Uzbek  Khan  joyously  weled  two

great masters; one from Shiraz in the South; the other from Samarkand in the

East; who’d fled from war and cruel shahs to the shelter of his court; however;

he  forbade  the  two  celebrated  talents  to  look  at  each  other’s  work;  and

separated  them  by  giving  them  small  workrooms  on  opposite  ends  of  his

palace; as far from each other as possible。 Thus; for exactly thirty…seven years

and  four  months;  as  if  listening  to  a  legend;  these  two  great  masters  each

listened  to  Abdullah  Khan  recount  the  magnificence  of  the  other’s  never…to…

be…seen  work;  how  it  differed  from  or  was  oddly  similar  to  the  other’s。

Meanwhile;  they  both  lived  dying  of  curiosity  about  each  other’s  paintings。

After  the  Uzbek  Khan’s  life  had  run  its  long  tortoiselike  course;  the  two  old

artists ran to each other’s rooms to see the paintings。 Later still; sitting upon

either  edge  of  a  large  cushion;  holding  each  other’s  books  on  their  laps  and

looking at the pictures that they recognized from Abdullah Khan’s fables; both

the  miniaturists  were  overe  with  great  disappointment  because  the

illustrations they saw weren’t nearly as spectacular as those they’d anticipated

from the stories they’d heard; but instead appeared; much like all the pictures

they’d  seen  in  recent  years;  rather  ordinary;  pale  and  hazy。  The  two  great

masters didn’t then realize that the reason for this haziness was the blindness

that had begun to descend upon them; nor did they realize it after both had

gone  pletely  blind;  rather  they  attributed  the  haziness  to  having  been

duped by the Khan; and hence they died believing dreams were more beautiful

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