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outing。”

“My beloved master; my good sir; this is quite a coincidence;” said Black。 “I;

too; am quite fond of that scene from Hüsrev and Shirin。”

“These aren’t fables; but events that actually happened;” I said。 “Listen; the

miniaturist  didn’t  depict  the  shah’s  beautiful  daughter  as  Shirin;  but  as  a

courtesan playing the lute or setting the table; because that was the figure he

was in the midst of illustrating at the time。 As a result; Shirin’s beauty paled

beside the extraordinary beauty of the courtesan standing off to the side; thus

disrupting  the  painting’s  balance。  After  the  shah  saw  his  daughter  in  the

painting; he wanted to locate the gifted miniaturist who’d depicted her。 But

the  crafty  miniaturist;  fearing  the  shah’s  wrath;  had  rendered  both  the

courtesan and Shirin; not in his own style; but in a new way so as to conceal

his  identity。  The  skillful  brush  strokes  of  quite  a  few  other  miniaturists  had

gone into the work as well。”

“How  had  the  shah  discovered  the  identity  of  the  miniaturist  who

portrayed his daughter?”

“From the ears!”

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“Whose ears? The ears of the daughter or her picture?”

“Actually;  neither。  Following  his  intuition;  he  first  laid  out  all  the  books;

pages and illustrations that his own miniaturists had made and inspected all

the ears therein。 He saw what he’d known for years in a new light: Regardless

of  the  level  of  talent;  each  of  the  miniaturists  made  ears  in  his  own  style。  It

didn’t  matter  if  the  face  they  depicted  was  the  face  of  a  sultan;  a  child;  a

warrior; or even; God forbid; the partially veiled face of Our Exalted Prophet;

or even; God forbid again; the face of the Devil。 Each miniaturist; in each case;

always drew the ears the same way; as if this were a secret signature。”

“Why?”

“When  the  masters  illustrated  a  face;  they  focused  on  approaching  its

exalted beauty; on the dictates of the old models of form; on the expression; or

on whether it should resemble somebody real。 But when it came time to make

the ears; they neither stole from others; imitated a model nor studied a real

ear。 For the ears; they didn’t think; didn’t aspire to anything; didn’t even stop

to  consider  what  they  were  doing。  They  simply  guided  their  brushes  from

memory。”

“But didn’t the great masters also create their masterpieces from memory

without ever even looking at real horses; trees or people?” said Black。

“True;”  I  said;  “but  those  are  memories  acquired  after  years  of  thought;

contemplation  and  reflection。  Having  seen  plenty  of  horses;  illustrated  and

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