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book alone。”

Master   Osman   uttered   this   last   statement   like   the   last   wish   of   a

disconsolate  weary  pasha  who  was  responsible  for  military  defeat  and

condemned to beheading。 He opened the book Jezmi Agha placed before him

and  in  a  scolding  voice  ordered  the  dwarf  to  turn  to  the  pages  he  wanted。

With  this  accusatory  tone;  he  instantly  became  the  Head  Illuminator  with

whom the entire workshop was familiar。

I withdrew into a corner among cushions embroidered with pearls; rusty…

barreled rifles with jewel…studded butts and cabis; and began eyeing Master

Osman。 The doubt gnawing away at me spread throughout my entire being: If

he  wished  to  stop  the  creation  of  Our  Sultan’s  book;  it  made  perfect  sense

that Master Osman might’ve orchestrated the murders of poor Elegant Effendi

and; afterward; of my Enishte—I reprimanded myself for just now feeling such

awe  toward  him。  On  the  other  hand;  I  couldn’t  restrain  myself  from  feeling

profound  respect  for  this  great  master  who  now  gave  himself  over  to  the

picture  before  him  and;  blind  or  half  blind;  was  peering  at  it  closely  as  if

looking with the countless wrinkles of his old face。 It dawned on me that to

preserve the old style and the regimen of the miniaturists’ workshop; to rid

himself of Enishte’s book and to bee again the Sultan’s only favorite; he

would gladly surrender any one of his master miniaturists; and me as well; to

the  torturers  of  the  mander  of  the  Imperial  Guard。  I  furiously  began  to

think of freeing myself from the love that bound me to him over the last two

days。

363

Much  later;  I  was  still  pletely  confused。  I  stared  randomly  at  the

illuminated pages of the volumes I extracted from chests solely to appease the

demons that had risen within me and to distract my jinns of indecision。

How many men and women had fingers in their mouths! This was used as

a  gesture  of  surprise  in  all  the  workshops  from  Samarkand  to  Baghdad  over

the  last  two  hundred  years。  As  the  hero  Keyhüsrev;  cornered  by  his  enemies;

safely crossed the rushing Oxus River aided by his black charger and Allah; the

wretched raftsman and his oarsman; who refused to offer him safe passage on

their  raft  each  had  a  finger  in  his  mouth。  An  astonished  Hüsrev’s  finger

remained in his mouth as he saw for the first time the beauty of Shirin; whose

skin  was  like  moonlight  as  she  bathed  in  the  once  glimmering  lake  whose

silver  leaf  had  tarnished。  I  spent  even  more  time  carefully  examining  the

gorgeous  women  of  the  harem  who;  with  fingers  in  their  mouths;  stood

behind half…opened palace doors; at the inaccessible windows of castle towers

and peered from behind curtains。 As Tejav; defeated by the armies of Persia to

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