Shehrayar (controlling his anger): Shehrazade, why do you draw nude women? This is blasphemy.

 Shehrazade (carelessly): Why? What’s wrong with women’s bodies?

Shehrayar (dumbfounded) : Nude women?!  Everything is wrong with that.

Shehrazade (looking him in the eye): They are not real women. They are art. They are ideas.

Shehrayar : They evoke desire. 

Shehrazade (with a sarcastic smile): Desire is born to be evoked. How else human kind continues?! What  good desire is if you want to kill it? 

Shehrayar: Not kill it,but suppress it and control it.

Shehrazade: THAT will evoke it like nothing else. You know better, Shehrayar. 

Shehrayar: Shut up!. Nudity encourages sin.

Shehrazade: Nudity in art means more than encouraging “sin”. What you call sin is a minor side effect. 

Shehrayar (with wide open eyes): Minor?!!

Shehrazade: Shehrayar, eroticism results from variety of things. You can not ban everything erotic. 

Shehrayar: You want to destroy the fabric of society. You want God’s wrath to devastate my kingdom

Shehrazade: Society needs to breath. Your kingdom needs fresh air and sunshine to keep its fabric from rotting.

Shehrayar (furious): Shehrazade, you are playing with fire. You know exactly what I can do to you.

Shehrazade (with the same sarcastic smile): And I know exactly what you can not do to me.

Shehrayar: Shut up woman!

Shehrazade (lovingly): I want to help you Shehrayar. Please accept what you are.

Shehrayar: Shut up! Shut up!

Shehrazade: Accept your human desire. It is not sin. Accept your…

Shehrayar: Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!

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Shehrayar rushes out of the room. Shehrazade goes back to her pigment bowl.

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