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| <h1>Paulo Coelho</h1> | ||
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| I can always go back to being a shepherd, the boy thought. I | ||
| learned how to care for sheep, and I haven’t forgotten how that’s | ||
| done. But maybe I’ll never have another chance to get to the | ||
| Pyramids in Egypt. The old man wore a breastplate of gold, and he | ||
| knew about my past. He really was a king, a wise king. | ||
| The hills of Andalusia were only two hours away, but there was | ||
| an entire desert between him and the Pyramids. Yet the boy felt that | ||
| there was another way to regard his situation: he was actually two | ||
| hours closer to his treasure…the fact that the two hours had | ||
| stretched into an entire year didn’t matter. | ||
| I know why I want to get back to my flock, he thought. I | ||
| understand sheep; they’re no longer a problem, and they can be | ||
| good friends. On the other hand, I don’t know if the desert can be a | ||
| friend, and it’s in the desert that I have to search for my treasure. If I | ||
| don’t find it, I can always go home. I finally have enough money, and | ||
| all the time I need. Why not? | ||
| He suddenly felt tremendously happy. He could always go back | ||
| to being a shepherd. He could always become a crystal salesman | ||
| again. Maybe the world had other hidden treasures, but he had a | ||
| dream, and he had met with a king. That doesn’t happen to just | ||
| anyone! | ||
| He was planning as he left the bar. He had remembered that one | ||
| of the crystal merchant’s suppliers transported his crystal by means | ||
| of caravans that crossed the desert. He held Urim and Thummim in | ||
| his hand; because of those two stones, he was once again on the way | ||
| to his treasure. | ||
| “I am always nearby, when someone wants to realize their | ||
| Personal Legend,” the old king had told him. | ||
| What could it cost to go over to the supplier’s warehouse and | ||
| find out if the Pyramids were really that far away? | ||
| THE ENGLISHMAN WAS SITTING ON A BENCH IN A STRUCTURE that smelled of | ||
| animals, sweat, and dust; it was part warehouse, part corral. I never | ||
| thought I’d end up in a place like this, he thought, as he leafed | ||
| through the pages of a chemical journal. Ten years at the university, | ||
| and here I am in a corral. | ||
| But he had to move on. He believed in omens. All his life and all | ||
| his studies were aimed at finding the one true language of the | ||
| universe. First he had studied Esperanto, then the world’s religions, | ||
| and now it was alchemy. He knew how to speak Esperanto, he | ||
| understood all the major religions well, but he wasn’t yet an | ||
| alchemist. He had unraveled the truths behind important questions, | ||
| but his studies had taken him to a point beyond which he could not | ||
| seem to go. He had tried in vain to establish a relationship with an | ||
| alchemist. But the alchemists were strange people, who thought | ||
| only about themselves, and almost always refused to help him. Who | ||
| knows, maybe they had failed to discover the secret of the Master | ||
| Work—the Philosopher’s Stone—and for this reason kept their | ||
| knowledge to themselves. | ||
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