aveling across deserts, mountains and rivers along orious sultan’s soldiers.

    er’s interest and excitement did Black and turned trators from ies large and small, eacinctive temperament, eacing under tronage of a different cruel sain, eacalent and succumbing to blindness. I felt tings icesed il our curned brigones upon our sion—tive book t displayed mets of torture. I  ttoman treasury: Instead of seeing torture as a necessary practice administered before to ensure Allaice in travelers s of our cruelty and evil-edness by urists abase tures in exc turist ures of bastinados, beatings, crucifixions, , ranglings, tting of ts, feedings to er, te flayings, tting off of noses and true artists like us icesinados, random pummelings and fists so t table master er—not to mention icks and rulers so t to be reborn as tion—only ing bastinados and tortures, only s y of coloring a ce.

    our rations  understand anyto take a closer look, yet lacking tience, t feel t, tion I noures in treasury—but truly knourned trusty mot eye passed over tures like an old stork traversing ttle surprised by t still astoniso see neo kno  from yle” first took ser had worked for whom, and how, for example,

    t Persia from  under Ced “A an agony lurked deeper  I can scarcely stled, tormented, pretty, moon-faced, gazelle-eyed, sapling-ters—battered by masters— remained full of excitement and ion t developed beters and ting, before succumbing to anonymity and blindness after long years of toil.

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