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ostrich  eggs;  cut…paper  work;  single…leaf  pictures;  amusing  albums;  playing

cards  and  books  we’d  offer  him  on  holidays。  Where  were  the  hardworking;

long…suffering;  elderly  artists  of  that  day  who  were  satisfied  with  so  little?

They’d never sequester themselves at home and jealously hide their methods

from others; dreading that their moonlighting would be found out; but would

e to the workshop every day without fail。 Where were the old miniaturists

who  humbly  devoted  their  entire  lives  to  drawing  intricate  designs  on  castle

walls; cypress leaves whose uniqueness was discernible only after close scrutiny

and  the  seven…leaf  steppe  grasses  used  to  fill  empty  spaces?  Where  were  the

uninspired masters who never grew jealous; having accepted the wisdom and

justice inherent in God’s bestowal of talent and ability upon some artists and

patience  and  pious  resignation  upon  others?  We  recalled  these  fatherly

masters; some of whom were hunched and perpetually smiling; others dreamy

and drunk and still others intent upon foisting off a spinster daughter; and as

we  recollected;  we  attempted  to  resurrect  the  forgotten  details  of  the

workshop as it had been during our apprentice and early mastership years。

Do you remember the limner who stuck his tongue into his cheek when he

ruled pages—to the left side if the line he drew headed right; and to the right

side  if  the  line  went  left;  the  small;  thin  artist  who  laughed  to  himself;

chortling  and  mumbling  “patience;  patience;  patience”  when  he  dribbled

paint; the septuagenarian master gilder who spent hour upon hour talking to

the  binder’s  apprentices  downstairs  and  claimed  that  red  ink  applied  to  the

forehead  stopped  aging;  the  ornery  master  who  relied  on  an  unsuspecting

apprentice   or   even   randomly   stopped   anyone   passing   by   to   test   the

consistency of paint upon their fingernails after his own nails were pletely

filled; and the portly artist who made us laugh as he caressed his beard with

the  furry  rabbit’s  foot  used  to  collect  the  excess  flecks  of  gold  dust  used  in

gilding? Where were they all?

Where were the burnishing boards which were used so much they became a

part of the apprentices’ bodies and then just tossed aside; and the long paper

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scissors that the apprentices dulled by playing “swordsman”? Where were the

writing boards inscribed with the names of the great masters so they wouldn’t

get mixed up; the aroma of China ink and the faint rattle of coffeepots aboil in

the silence? Where were the various brushes we made of hairs from the necks

and inner ears of kittens born to our tabby cats each summer; and the great

sheaves of Indian paper given to us so; in idle moments; we could practice our

artistry the way calligraphers did? Where was the ugly steel…handled penknife

ission  from  the  Head  Illuminator;  thus  providing  a

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