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after days; sometimes after months; as with old men who go blind naturally。

I’d caught sight of it while passing into the next room; I stood and looked;

yes; there it was: an ivory mirror with a twisted handle and thick ebony frame;

its  length  nicely  embellished  with  script。  I  sat  down  again  and  gazed  at  my

own  eyes。  How  beautifully  the  flame  of  the  candle  danced  in  my  pupils—

which had witnessed my hand paint for sixty years。

“How had Master Bihzad done it?” I asked myself once more。

Never once taking my eyes off the mirror; with the practiced movements of

a woman applying kohl to her eyelids; my hand found the needle on its own。

Without hesitation; as if making a hole at the end of an ostrich egg soon to be

embellished; I bravely; calmly and firmly pressed the needle into the pupil of

my right eye。 My innards sank; not because I felt what I was doing; but because

I  saw  what  I  was  doing。  I  pushed  the  needle  into  my  eye  to  the  depth  of  a

quarter the length of a finger; then removed it。

In  the  couplet  worked  into  the  frame  of  the  mirror;  the  poet  had  wished

the observer eternal beauty and wisdom—and eternal life to the mirror itself。

Smiling; I did the same to my other eye。

For a long while I didn’t move。 I stared at the world—at everything。

As  I’d  surmised;  the  colors  of  the  world  did  not  darken;  but  seemed  to

bleed ever so gently into one another。 I could still more or less see。

The pale light of the sun fell over the red and oxblood cloth of the Treasury。

In the accustomed ceremony; the Head Treasurer and his men broke the seal

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and  opened  the  lock  and  the  door。  Jezmi  Agha  changed  the  chamber  pots;

lamps   and   brazier;   brought   in   fresh   bread   and   dried   mulberries   and

announced to the others that we would continue searching for the horses with

oddly  drawn  nostrils  within  Our  Sultan’s  books。  What  could  be  more

exquisite than looking at the world’s most beautiful pictures while trying to

recollect God’s vision of the world?

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I AM CALLED BLACK

When the Head Treasurer and the chief officers opened the portal with great

ceremony my eyes were so accustomed to the velvety red aura of the Treasury

rooms that the early morning winter sunlight filtering in from the courtyard

of the Royal Private Quarters of the Enderun seemed terrifying。 I stood dead

still; as did Master Osman himself: If I moved; it seemed; the clues we sought

in the moldy; dusty and tangible air of the Treasury might escape。

With curious amazement; as if seeing some magnificent object for the first

time;  Master  Osman  stared  at  the  light  cascading  toward  us  between  the

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