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“I would like to die here;” he said。

“My great master; my dear sir;” I fawned; “in this age when value is placed

not  on  painting  but  on  the  money  one  can  earn  from  it;  not  on  the  old

masters  but  on  imitators  of  the  Franks;  I  so  well  understand  what  you’re

saying that it brings tears to my eyes。 Yet it is also your duty to protect your

master illustrators from their enemies。 Please tell me; what conclusions have

you drawn from the ”courtesan method‘? Who is the miniaturist who painted

that horse?“

“Olive。”

He’d said this with such ease that I had no chance to be surprised。

He fell silent。

“But I’m also certain that Olive wasn’t the one who murdered your Enishte

or unfortunate Elegant Effendi;” he said calmly。 “I believe that Olive drew the

horse because he’s the one who’s most bound to the old masters; who knows

most intimately the legends and styles of Herat and whose master…apprentice

genealogy stretches back to Samarkand。 Now I know you won’t ask me; ”Why

haven’t we encountered these nostrils in the other horses that Olive drew over

the years?“ since I’ve already mentioned how at times a detail—the wing of a

bird;  the  way  a  leaf  is  attached  to  a  tree—can  be  preserved  in  memory  for

generations; passing from master to apprentice; and yet might not manifest on

the page due to the influence of a moody or rigid master or on account of the

particular tastes and whims of a particular workshop or sultan。 So then; this is

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the horse that dear Olive; in his childhood; learned directly from the Persian

masters without ever being able to forget it。 The fact that the horse suddenly

appeared for the sake of Enishte’s book is a cruel trick of Allah’s。 Hadn’t all of

us  taken  the  old  masters  of  Herat  as  our  models?  Just  like  the  Turkmen

illustrators for whom the face of a beautiful woman meant one with Chinese

features;  didn’t  we  think  exclusively  of  the  masterpieces  of  Herat  when  we

thought   of   well…executed   pictures?   We   are   all   their   devoted   admirers。

Nourishing all great art is the Herat of Bihzad; and supporting this Herat are

the Mongol horsemen and the Chinese。 Why should Olive; thoroughly bound

to  the  legends  of  Herat;  murder  poor  Elegant  Effendi;  who  was  even  more

bound—even blindly devoted—to the same old methods?”

“Who then?” I said。 “Butterfly?”

“Stork!” he said。 “This is what I know in my heart of hearts; for I am well

acquainted with his greed and fury。 Listen; in all probability while gilding for

your  Enishte;  who  foolishly  and  clumsily  imitated  Frankish  methods;  poor

Elegant  Effendi  came  to  believe  that  this  venture  might  somehow  be

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