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heads of the Treasury chiefs lined up in rows on either side of the open portal。

The night before; I watched him as he turned the pages of the Book of Kings。

I  noticed  this  same  expression  of  astonishment  pass  over  his  face  as  his

shadow;  cast  upon  the  wall;  trembled  faintly;  his  head  carefully  sank  down

toward  his  magnifying  lens;  and  his  lips  first  contorted  delicately;  as  if

preparing to reveal a pleasant secret; then twitched as he gazed in awe at an

illustration。

After  the  portal  was  shut  again;  I  wandered  impatiently  between  rooms

ever  more  restless;  I  thought  nervously  that  we  wouldn’t  have  time  to  cull

enough  information  from  the  books  in  the  Treasury。  I  sensed  that  Master

Osman couldn’t focus adequately on his task; and I confessed my misgivings

to him。

Like  a  genuine  master  grown  accustomed  to  caressing  his  apprentices;  he

held my hand in a pleasing way。 “Men like us have no choice but to try to see

the world the way God does and to resign ourselves to His justice;” he said。

“And here; among these pictures and possessions; I have the strong sensation

that these two things are beginning to converge: As we approach God’s vision

of  the  world;  His  justice  approaches  us。  See  here;  the  needle  Master  Bihzad

blinded himself with…”

Master Osman callously told the story of the needle; and I scrutinized the

extremely sharp point of this disagreeable object beneath the magnifying glass

which he lowered so I might better see; a pinkish film covered its tip。

“The old masters;” Master Osman said; “would suffer pangs of conscience

about   changing   their   talent;   colors   and   methods。   They’d   consider   it

dishonorable  to  see  the  world  one  day  as  an  Eastern  shah  manded;  the

next; as a Western ruler did—which is what the artists of our day do。”

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His eyes were neither trained on mine nor upon the pages in front of him。

It seemed as though he were gazing at a distant unattainable whiteness。 In a

page of the Book of Kings lying open before him; Persian and Turanian armies

clashed  with  all  their  force。  As  horses  fought  shoulder  to  shoulder;  enraged

heroic warriors drew their swords and slaughtered one another with the color

and  joy  of  a  festival;  their  armor  pierced  by  the  lances  of  the  cavalry;  their

heads and arms severed; their bodies hacked apart or cloven in two; strewn all

over the field。

“When the great masters of old were forced to adopt the styles of victors

and imitate their miniaturists; they preserved their honor by using a needle to

heroically bring on the blindness that the labors of painting would’ve caused

in  time。  Yes;  before  the  pureness  of  God’s  darkness  fell  over  their  eyes  like  a

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