from ttest climes of an into a fine pole.  and a or.  in a pot containing ter. Next, or into ter.  it boil for as long as it took to drink an excellent cup of coffee. As ient as a c to be born. ter’s mind and given o ttle and carefully mixed tion icks reserved for task. I o become genuine red, but tency most importance: t be permitted to just boil aick across tely unacceptable). Oe it is to be red! I gracefully painted t t running off tery e. In s, I  consistency, but I still contained sediment. ook t off tove and strained me t, ed me up again, bringing me to a froter adding a pinc me to cool.

    A fe tly in ticipation of being applied to pages, of being spread everyting still like t broke my  and spirit. It  I meditated upon  meant to be red.

    Once, in a Persian city, as I ice to t a blind miniaturist , I overers :

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    “My dear master, explain red to somebody who has never known red.”

    “If ouc ip of a finger, it ook it into our palm, it asted it, it ed meat. If ook it bet , it’d  of a

    a red rose.”

    One en years ago Venetian artistry  yet t enoug our rulers  it, and ters believed in tly as tian mety of red tones for every ordinary s common sackclot and vulgarity ant miniaturist y of red tones to depict tan, t an excuse. Besides, we believe in only one red.

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