ters iral Asia are pierg and bleak, id summers bring cery and mosquitoes, but, in April, touc of all trees douses tys t-catcs.

        Every city s oernal logic. Imagine a city draraigric se, in pale terracotta. Loerraces of o rise out of tis, not built out of it. t, gritty dust over everyt tel crayons leave on your fingers.

        Against t crusts of ceramic tiles t cover t mausoleums ensorcellate transforms itself to green . Beely lapis lazuli and veridian, tamburlaiomb. e are visiting an autically fabulous city. e are in Samarkand.

        tion promised t    least, did not in, pink and yellocripes of brilliant colours t dazzle like an optical illusion, and th much jewellery made lass.

        to be fro a traig takes to t a break. tartling. ten ts. Young girls tle velvet caps embroidered allic ted igy years.

        t live in an imaginary city. t kno turbanned, sed, booted menfolk are creatures as extraordinary to t, in all ttering and i exoticism, in direct tradi to ory. t kno t kno ty is not tire y, beautiful as an illusion, ea s wicker cage.

        t er from a glass over radis of t summers dried fruit -- apricots, peac for a fees, stored in sa ter and no open on tall to s    of gars remains y of Samarkand is salted apricot kernels, more delicious, even, tachios.

        An old ains,    flourtle-doves are ing among to a cup of buttermilk for s slohey are growing.

        So in time. Or, it is as if sing for Sco perceive a final daale of all cluded, fall silent. t vanish.

        A goat is nibbling     by tiful amburlaine.

        tamburlaines arted to build t t urn, one arcill remained unfinis directly to ted begged o    tect told    e time only if she gave him a kiss. One kiss, one single kiss.

        tamburlaines    only very beautiful and very virtuous but also very clever. S to t, boug of eggs, boiled tai colours. Sect to t and told o c it. ook a red egg.    does it taste like? Like an egg. Eat another.

        ook a green egg.

        does t taste like? Like try again.

        e a purple egg.

        One eggs tastes just they are fresh, he said.

        t to t but taste t you like but you must leave me alone.

        Very ect. But soon o ime ray , and you er.

        Drink from eachese bowls, he said.

        Sook a drink from t bo tered    tained, not er, but vodka.

        t er bot eacastes quite different,    is th love.

        tamburlai on t back to t victorious tamburlaine rode into Samarkand ive kings. But    to visit urned ao ter sasted vodka. tamburlai    until sold ed t ioners foot to the mosque.

        tioners saect standing on top of tairs    wo Persia.

        tory in simple, geometric samburlaines ory ripe laterally across iny plaits, like any ot red and we radis for er s. Perhere.

        Our Lady of the Massacre

        My name is    I may not speak of no    noo my person nor my life as to my nature. But I first sale ters left living    on t became of t kno, as for me, I could do a bit of se me up as a maid of all o an old    lived in our parish.

        t, of t t to ing a son aing no saugin, Greek and a bit of     telescope o vie oo bad to make out muc    clear sigo to e. Se me    at tars, too, for I ers, as you    see, and o    my    ts and zodiacal instruments. And, old me I     no time in all my life, but a little versational each me, for reasons as follows:

        t tars, ake a long voyage over to t, s t;red c; could be    tribe of Israel, so saug;love" and ";, and muc I ten, so t I could talk to my     been a steady girl, surned my    t tars foretold I so be nohe Red Men.

        For, s try far beyoy, and its rivers floly from Eden so, ed to true religion -- "o    deserve it and my little babby sit smiling over everytin and cross    I old nobody about    ar-gazi ic, tcure.

        One day ts up again and    all to em but t s for meself.

        I take it into my o go to London, ime -- five days. s to London, I stole my first penny loaf, to keep me from starving, o my undoing, a gentleman t spies me slip to my pocket, instead of raising a o treets, takes my arm, inquires:    or ination t makes me take it. I flares up at t: ant, sir! says I and ty young "Lancas; as I    for nottered and coaxed me t I    o a room    in a public s    for s mo ever I sail ts for, so o pray fiveness,    I sa fall, e one, and t;Lancas; rade as t;Lancas;.

        No     tter bread of exile. But you could say t,    made a t, it ed me in t and ; for it since my ers, blinded as t and often fuddled o pluck, living, than geese, dead.

        It c of ty alderman t took me to Nee for I quarrelled    and sook    of me to trate out of spite. So, just as my old Lancasress said, I sailed tinia but I    in a vict transport. to brand me, as ts, and sold me to en tation for seven years, after whey said I should be a free woman again.

        My master took a liking to me, for I    yet aged above seventeen, and    of tobacco fields into c t like it, t I s taste of ered me unmercifully t, since I    play t maid    me alone in ter o c being Sunday m, t one , says I s    or no. I picked up t oot a sigig;    into t dripping.

        Seeing me in sucer, t of vegetables cries: "s t;

        "ell," says I, "t o board me and Ive    oo."

        tured kind of Negro man and a slave, ickled ooo often by t forbear to laug says to me: "t be off into t your fate to tender mercies of tter."

        of dinner in it and a tinder-box    o, and I sation a    pair of ell you, adding to my list of crimes t most heinous: escape from bondage.

        I am a ge from Lancaso London and by time nig doo eat t of bread and ba teen odd miles betation and rougoo, for my master    to groo il I gets to , Id ply my trade amongst strangers, for a    o set up business.

        You must knoo Florida but ten or tｔｐ://, for I kne ance furt, for t vastness of to me. As for t, c t sound uook a bearing by t on.

        I er out of treams and it    off a bit of fruit but my guts began to rumble by diime and I cast my eye about for more solid fodder. Seeing ts and birds unknoo me, I t: "s!" So I tied my srings togeto make a little snare and trapped a small, bro kind, but earless, and slit its t, ski, toasted it on tinder-box ted    and a bit of bread.

        After I eat my dinner, I sa t t I mig stones,    of effort, and so get a kind of flour, as    imes of . I reasoned o douger. t. And, if I ed fisom, I could tickle trout ream abounded, ry girl kno unlike pig a pocket. Also, it seemed to me, if I dried t s for a mont so far in planning my diet, I t:    meat    salt!

        For, I t, I eel and fire and te is temperate, tful; ter out of brail time. Besides, to tell trutrils oo full of tink of y to relisurn to t I t t I sravel on a little more, for safetys sake, into t no ing party miguro tell you, more dread of te man,    time unknoo me.

        So I aking my living from try easily enoug tle; but ter t I ribe in a clearing and t to kill    t ing t. So I steps back to    s of a planter, alt I rod before. But s so t s and .

        I    it but step across to pick up to -seller t overturns    of apples.

        ts to    and    fear me for it, or, rat fear me because of it, but, all t like takes    from me again as if to leave me in t. But I am struck by    red but    came into my mind to open my bodice, ss, t, ter skin, I could give suck as ouched my bosom.

        S middle age dressed in no a buckskin skirt and sed ill ioned me, as I t, t ion. So off go my stays and I to a bus. to give u my apron.

        "No!" I t    over and s muc ake to mean "Knife". I say it after ing to it, but ser ;S;. Or, a o Englise. And t     ever I spoke, t t, by any means. t, as I    see, marked by caugry    ;S;. ely repeats after me but I    tell it means noo her.

        Sions me: so look for me among to to;taken" by em alter    took me    my , t im.
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