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The murderer, during and shortly after the funeral, recounts his past with Elegant. He follows Black and Enishte to Enishte’s home while thinking about the evil inside him and its necessity to the artist.

Enishte attends the funeral procession of Elegant, meeting up with the other master miniaturists. He reasons to stop working on the book before recalling a memory of when he was compelled to visit Venice to declare the Sultan’s intention to take Cyprus and resolving the book must be completed.

Shekure argues with her father about the prospect of divorce and remarriage and reveals to the reader the secret relationship between her father and Hayriye.

Esther lets Hasan read Black’s letter to Shekure. Hasan also gives her a letter for Shekure to whom she then delivers both and is disheartened by them, saying she is waiting for her husband to return.

Black visits the other two master miniaturists. Stork tells three parables about the value of time in illustration. Olive relates three stories that exemplify the virtue of blindness in art and how it connects the artist with the world as Allah sees it.

wow bermacam-macam sudut pandang.

because i’m feeling weird, i’ll try this. bought it once because i didn’t know what to do with myself once when i was with amaya in a bookstore and then i recognized pamuk (cotton in serbian) so i picked it up. the name is turkish which makes sense. anyway i’m expecting this to be a weird read. and also take a while to get through

Black first visits Butterfly, who narrates three parables related to style and signature, and then is questioned by Black about Elegant’s disappearance.

Black, after mulling over the meaning of Shekure’s letter and appearance at the window, makes his way to the Sultan’s workshop. Here he reunites with Master Osman after 15 years and is shown what is being worked on including the illustrations for the Book of Festivities. They speak about the four master miniaturists and the growing influence of western art styles, heretical to the Islamic tradition.

A sketch of a tree doesn’t want to be a tree, it wants to be its meaning.

As she quickly closes the window from which she saw Black, Shekure recounts growing up with him as well as her marriage to her husband and later her unhappily living with her in-laws after his disappearance.