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Yet it wasn’t him I pitied; but myself now。

“If you tell us before the blood clots in your eyes; in the morning you can

look upon the world to your heart’s content one last time;” said Black。 “See;

the rain has eased。”

“”Let’s  go  back  to  the  coffeehouse;“  I  said  to  Elegant;  but  sensed  at  once

that  he  didn’t  like  it  there;  and  even  that  it  frightened  him。  This  was  how  I

first  knew  Elegant  Effendi  had  broken  from  us  pletely  and  had  gone  his

separate way after painting with us for twenty…five years。 In the last eight or

ten  years;  after  he  married;  I’d  see  him  at  the  workshop;  but  I  didn’t  even

know what he was occupied with…He told me he saw the last picture; how it

contained  a  sin  so  grave  we’d  never  live  it  down。  As  a  consequence;  he

maintained;  we’d  all  burn  in  Hell。  He  was  agitated  and  possessed  by  fear;

overe  with  the  sense  of  devastation  felt  by  a  man  who’d  unwittingly

mitted heresy。”

“What heresy?”

“When I asked him this very question; he opened his eyes wide in surprise

as if to say; You mean you don’t know? It was then I thought how our friend

had aged; as have we all。 He said unfortunate Enishte had brazenly used the

perspectival  method  in  the  last  picture。  In  this  picture;  objects  weren’t

depicted according to their importance in Allah’s mind; but as they appeared

to the naked eye—the way the Franks painted。 This was the first transgression。

The second was depicting Our Sultan; the Caliph of Islam; the same size as a

dog。 The third transgression also involved rendering Satan the same size; and

in  an  endearing  light。  But  what  surpassed  them  all—a  natural  result  of

introducing this Frankish understanding into our painting—was drawing Our

Sultan’s  picture  as  large  as  life  and  his  face  in  all  its  detail!  Just  like  the

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idolators  do…Or  just  like  the  ”portraits’  that  Christians;  who  couldn’t  save

themselves  from  their  inherent  idolatrous  tendencies;  painted  upon  their

church  walls  and  worshiped。  Elegant  Effendi;  who  learned  of  portraits  from

your Enishte; knew this quite well; and believed correctly that portraiture was

the  greatest  of  sins;  and  would  be  the  downfall  of  Muslim  painting。  As  we

hadn’t  gone  to  the  coffeehouse;  where;  he  claimed;  our  exalted  Preacher

Effendi and our religion were being maligned; he explained all this to me while

we  walked  down  the  street。  Occasionally;  he’d  stop;  as  though  seeking  help;

ask  me  whether  all  of  this  was  indeed  correct;  whether  there  wasn’t  any

recourse  and  whether  we’d

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