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| <h1>Paulo Coelho</h1> | ||
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| “Drink and enjoy yourself,” said the alchemist, noticing that the | ||
| boy was feeling happier. “Rest well tonight, as if you were a warrior | ||
| preparing for combat. Remember that wherever your heart is, there | ||
| you will find your treasure. You’ve got to find the treasure, so that | ||
| everything you have learned along the way can make sense. | ||
| “Tomorrow, sell your camel and buy a horse. Camels are | ||
| traitorous: they walk thousands of paces and never seem to tire. | ||
| Then suddenly, they kneel and die. But horses tire bit by bit. You | ||
| always know how much you can ask of them, and when it is that | ||
| they are about to die.” | ||
| THE FOLLOWING NIGHT, THE BOY APPEARED AT THE alchemist’s tent with a | ||
| horse. The alchemist was ready, and he mounted his own steed and | ||
| placed the falcon on his left shoulder. He said to the boy, “Show me | ||
| where there is life out in the desert. Only those who can see such | ||
| signs of life are able to find treasure.” | ||
| They began to ride out over the sands, with the moon lighting | ||
| their way. I don’t know if I’ll be able to find life in the desert, the boy | ||
| thought. I don’t know the desert that well yet. | ||
| He wanted to say so to the alchemist, but he was afraid of the | ||
| man. They reached the rocky place where the boy had seen the | ||
| hawks in the sky, but now there was only silence and the wind. | ||
| “I don’t know how to find life in the desert,” the boy said. “I | ||
| know that there is life here, but I don’t know where to look.” | ||
| “Life attracts life,” the alchemist answered. | ||
| And then the boy understood. He loosened the reins on his | ||
| horse, who galloped forward over the rocks and sand. The alchemist | ||
| followed as the boy’s horse ran for almost half an hour. They could | ||
| no longer see the palms of the oasis—only the gigantic moon above | ||
| them, and its silver reflections from the stones of the desert. | ||
| Suddenly, for no apparent reason, the boy’s horse began to slow. | ||
| “There’s life here,” the boy said to the alchemist. “I don’t know | ||
| the language of the desert, but my horse knows the language of life.” | ||
| They dismounted, and the alchemist said nothing. Advancing | ||
| slowly, they searched among the stones. The alchemist stopped | ||
| abruptly, and bent to the ground. There was a hole there among the | ||
| stones. The alchemist put his hand into the hole, and then his entire | ||
| arm, up to his shoulder. Something was moving there, and the | ||
| alchemist’s eyes—the boy could see only his eyes—squinted with | ||
| his effort. His arm seemed to be battling with whatever was in the | ||
| hole. Then, with a motion that startled the boy, he withdrew his arm | ||
| and leaped to his feet. In his hand, he grasped a snake by the tail. | ||
| The boy leapt as well, but away from the alchemist. The snake | ||
| fought frantically, making hissing sounds that shattered the silence | ||
| of the desert. It was a cobra, whose venom could kill a person in | ||
| minutes. | ||
| “Watch out for his venom,” the boy said. But even though the | ||
| alchemist had put his hand in the hole, and had surely already been | ||
| bitten, his expression was calm. “The alchemist is two hundred | ||
| years old,” the Englishman had told him. He must know how to deal | ||
| with the snakes of the desert. | ||
| The boy watched as his companion went to his horse and | ||
| withdrew a scimitar. With its blade, he drew a circle in the sand, and | ||
| then he placed the snake within it. The serpent relaxed immediately. | ||
| “Not to worry,” said the alchemist. “He won’t leave the circle. | ||
| You found life in the desert, the omen that I needed.” | ||
| “Why was that so important?” | ||
| “Because the Pyramids are surrounded by the desert.” | ||
| The boy didn’t want to talk about the Pyramids. His heart was | ||
| heavy, and he had been melancholy since the previous night. To | ||
| continue his search for the treasure meant that he had to abandon | ||
| Fatima. | ||
| “I’m going to guide you across the desert,” the alchemist said. | ||
| “I want to stay at the oasis,” the boy answered. “I’ve found | ||
| Fatima, and, as far as I’m concerned, she’s worth more than | ||
| treasure.” | ||
| “Fatima is a woman of the desert,” said the alchemist. “She | ||
| knows that men have to go away in order to return. And she already | ||
| has her treasure: it’s you. Now she expects that you will find what it | ||
| is you’re looking for.” | ||
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