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| 21 | + <h1>Paulo Coelho</h1> |
| 22 | + <h6>Brazilian lyricist</h6> |
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| 24 | + “Can I help you?” asked the man behind the window. |
| 25 | + “Maybe tomorrow,” said the boy, moving away. If he sold just |
| 26 | + one of his sheep, he’d have enough to get to the other shore of the |
| 27 | + strait. The idea frightened him. |
| 28 | + “Another dreamer,” said the ticket seller to his assistant, |
| 29 | + watching the boy walk away. “He doesn’t have enough money to |
| 30 | + travel.” |
| 31 | + While standing at the ticket window, the boy had remembered |
| 32 | + his flock, and decided he should go back to being a shepherd. In two |
| 33 | + years he had learned everything about shepherding: he knew how |
| 34 | + to shear sheep, how to care for pregnant ewes, and how to protect |
| 35 | + the sheep from wolves. He knew all the fields and pastures of |
| 36 | + Andalusia. And he knew what was the fair price for every one of his |
| 37 | + animals. |
| 38 | + He decided to return to his friend’s stable by the longest route |
| 39 | + possible. As he walked past the city’s castle, he interrupted his |
| 40 | + return, and climbed the stone ramp that led to the top of the wall. |
| 41 | + From there, he could see Africa in the distance. Someone had once |
| 42 | + told him that it was from there that the Moors had come, to occupy |
| 43 | + all of Spain. |
| 44 | + He could see almost the entire city from where he sat, including |
| 45 | + the plaza where he had talked with the old man. Curse the moment I |
| 46 | + met that old man, he thought. He had come to the town only to find |
| 47 | + a woman who could interpret his dream. Neither the woman nor the |
| 48 | + old man was at all impressed by the fact that he was a shepherd. |
| 49 | + They were solitary individuals who no longer believed in things, |
| 50 | + and didn’t understand that shepherds become attached to their |
| 51 | + sheep. He knew everything about each member of his flock: he |
| 52 | + knew which ones were lame, which one was to give birth two |
| 53 | + months from now, and which were the laziest. He knew how to |
| 54 | + shear them, and how to slaughter them. If he ever decided to leave |
| 55 | + them, they would suffer. |
| 56 | + The wind began to pick up. He knew that wind: people called it |
| 57 | + the levanter, because on it the Moors had come from the Levant at |
| 58 | + the eastern end of the Mediterranean. |
| 59 | + The levanter increased in intensity. Here I am, between my flock |
| 60 | + and my treasure, the boy thought. He had to choose between |
| 61 | + something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted |
| 62 | + to have. There was also the merchant’s daughter, but she wasn’t as |
| 63 | + important as his flock, because she didn’t depend on him. Maybe she |
| 64 | + didn’t even remember him. He was sure that it made no difference |
| 65 | + to her on which day he appeared: for her, every day was the same, |
| 66 | + and when each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to |
| 67 | + recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that |
| 68 | + the sun rises. |
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