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youths  in  love  with  each  other;  and  was  reminded  of  the  love  my  own

handsome  apprentices  nourished  for  painting。  A  tiny…footed;  transparent…

skinned; weak and girlish youth had bared a delicate forearm; which aroused

in  one  the  desire  to  kiss  it  and  die;  while  a  cherry…lipped;  almond…eyed;

sapling…thin; button…nosed beauty of a maiden gazed with wonder—as though

viewing three lovely flowers—upon the three small; deep marks of passion the

youth  had  burned  onto  the  inside  of  that  adorable  arm  to  demonstrate  the

strength of his love and his attachment to her。

Oddly; my heart began to quicken and pound。 As had happened sixty years

ago  in  my  early  apprenticeship;  while  I  was  looking  at  some  rather  indecent

illustrations  of  handsome  marble…skinned  boys  and  slim  small…breasted

maidens drawn in the black…ink style of Tabriz; beads of sweat accumulated on

my forehead。 I recalled the passion for painting I felt and the depth of thought

I  experienced  when;  a  few  years  after  I’d  married  and  taken  my  first  steps

toward  master  status;  I  saw  a  lovely  angel…faced;  almond…eyed;  rose…petal…

skinned youth brought in as an apprentice candidate。 For a moment; I had the

strong  feeling  that  painting  was  not  about  melancholy  and  regret  but  about

this  desire  I  felt  and  that  it  was  the  talent  of  the  master  artist  that  first

transformed this desire into a love of God and then into a love of the world as

God saw it; so strong was this feeling that it caused me to relive with ecstatic

delight  all  the  years  I’d  spent  over  the  drawing  board  until  my  back  was

hunched; all the beatings I’d endured while learning my craft; my dedication

to courting blindness through illustration and all the agonies of painting I’d

suffered  and  made  others  suffer。  As  if  running  my  eyes  over  something

forbidden;  I  stared  long  and  silently  at  this  wondrous  illustration  with  the

same delight。 Much later I was still staring。 A teardrop slid from my eye over

my cheek into my beard。

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When  I  noticed  that  one  of  the  candlesticks  slowly  floating  through  the

Treasury  was  approaching  me;  I  put  the  album  away  and  randomly  opened

one  of  the  volumes  the  dwarf  had  recently  set  beside  me。  This  was  a  special

album  prepared  for  shahs:  I  saw  two  deer  at  the  edge  of  a  green  copse

enamored of each other; with jackals watching them in hostile envy。 I turned

the page: Chestnut and bay horses that could’ve been the work of only one of

the  old  masters  of  Herat—how  spectacular  they  were!  I  turned  the  page:  A

confidently  seated  governmental  official  greeted  me  from  a  seventy…year…old

picture; I couldn’t determine who it was from the face because he looked like

anybody; or so I thought; yet the air of the painting; the seated man’s beard

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