I AM CALLED BLACK
ermine ings prepared for Eniso treasurer o clear ed, t be someto to arouse suc disgust and red in a miniaturist like myself istry; merely bad art provoke sucion. So, y, I began to reexamine t turists wo .
I saree in tuated ’s border design and gilding o conjure tory to rators to draree, dear Butterfly, ork and of a story so t drao scrutinize t tree, I’d be able to determine rator s brancary tree; be, te o tyle of t masters of Suated tion. t all, ed by raising to depict a tree simply as sucian masters did, ing t ian nor Persian. tree at ttempting to combine te styles, my miniaturists and t deceased clo it t tration h.
I felt t tures, at t dream matter also iritated me, my illustrators ed tures into Our Sultan’s illuminated manuscript. I felt rene exalted Alla in taking Eniso say, I soever to complete t.
be annoyed by t staring at me from just beneat ounded by tioning, ty of its tening sidelong glance, o t s teet, by talent of turists (I ermining precisely forgive talent able o imitate t tan for t to make use of teco tians e to explain tension in tures.
I errified by tling picture, oucer miniaturists in eacist’s I couldn’t identify o ting under tire he
illustration some time ure pointing out to Black s ree (Stork), te and floterfly).
“Of course, a great master miniaturist like yourself, inguis of eacrators, tion of temperament of trokes,” Black said. “But ors to paint ried tecermine tists responsible for eacainty?”
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