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The ancient dwellers of the ruined settlementsمردمان آبادیهای ویران

The long-dead people who lived in the mud-brick ruins on the mountains near the grave; among them, the narrator imagines, was the jar painter.

The ancient dwellers of the ruined settlements, from The Blind Owl: ink-and-wash drawing
Kind
Group
Persian
مردمان آبادیهای ویران
Also called
مردمانی، این مردمان
First appears
P079.L02
Lines
2
GNML id
grp_ancient_dwellers

In the scenes

Where the text names them

P079.L02

مردمانی زندگانی می‌کردند که حالا استخوان آنها پوسیده شده و شاید ذرات قسمتهای مختلف تن آنها در گلهای نیلوفر کبود زندگی می‌کرد،

people lived whose bones had now decayed and perhaps particles of the different parts of their bodies lived in blue morning glories,

P079.L03

میان این مردمان یک نفر نقاش فلک‌زده، یک نفر نقاش نفرین‌شده، شاید یک نفر قلمدان‌ساز بدبخت مثل من وجود داشته، درست مثل من.

among those people there had been a wretched painter, an accursed painter, perhaps an unfortunate pen-case maker like me, exactly like me.

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