even o mention tood at once and said tire neigroubled over te of  tuation ed too long. Instead of searcness required for a legal separation at ted o offer an additional gold piece to t of Surn. After all, for only tness. e immediately agreed. t to fetcher.

    t of our day rat-and-mouse” stories t I’d corytellers in Aleppo coffee out. Because of all ture and trickery, sucories ten up as narrative poems and bound aken seriously even if presented in fine calligrap is, trated. I, on te pleased to divide our daylong adventure into four scenes, imagining eacrated pages of my mind.

    In t scene, turist ougo depict us amid mustaco ter. Meanare deep into ters of ter morning, on guard for an ominous sign s currents. I’m afraid, for example, t I mige ster urist colors t to include somet to tense as my dreams of errifying-looking fiser so ture  assume all is rosy.

    Our second picture ougo sans, tings of tate, tion of European ambassadors, and detailed and carefully composed croeriors of a subtlety  is, ture ougo partake of playful tricks and irony. tly makes an open-” gesture indicating “never” or “no” to my bribe,  to be sing my Venetian gold coins, and timate result of ted in ture: Saneous depiction of sequential events could only be acelligent miniaturist’s cunning facility in page composition. t sees me giving a bribe, notices else tting cross-legged on t read tory, t temporarily given up  grant Shekure a divorce.

    tration s time tation syle, tricate and dense,