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| <h6>Author</h6> | ||
| <h1>Paulo Coelho</h1> | ||
| <h6>Brazilian lyricist</h6> | ||
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| The boy closed his book. He felt that he didn’t want to do | ||
| anything that might make him look like the Englishman. He took | ||
| Urim and Thummim from his pocket, and began playing with them. | ||
| The stranger shouted, “Urim and Thummim!” | ||
| In a flash the boy put them back in his pocket. | ||
| “They’re not for sale,” he said. | ||
| “They’re not worth much,” the Englishman answered. “They’re | ||
| only made of rock crystal, and there are millions of rock crystals in | ||
| the earth. But those who know about such things would know that | ||
| those are Urim and Thummim. I didn’t know that they had them in | ||
| this part of the world.” | ||
| “They were given to me as a present by a king,” the boy said. | ||
| The stranger didn’t answer; instead, he put his hand in his | ||
| pocket, and took out two stones that were the same as the boy’s. | ||
| “Did you say a king?” he asked. | ||
| “I guess you don’t believe that a king would talk to someone like | ||
| me, a shepherd,” he said, wanting to end the conversation. | ||
| “Not at all. It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a | ||
| king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge. So, it’s not | ||
| surprising that kings would talk to shepherds.” | ||
| And he went on, fearing that the boy wouldn’t understand what | ||
| he was talking about, “It’s in the Bible. The same book that taught | ||
| me about Urim and Thummim. These stones were the only form of | ||
| divination permitted by God. The priests carried them in a golden | ||
| breastplate.” | ||
| The boy was suddenly happy to be there at the warehouse. | ||
| “Maybe this is an omen,” said the Englishman, half aloud. | ||
| “Who told you about omens?” The boy’s interest was increasing | ||
| by the moment. | ||
| “Everything in life is an omen,” said the Englishman, now closing | ||
| the journal he was reading. “There is a universal language, | ||
| understood by everybody, but already forgotten. I am in search of | ||
| that universal language, among other things. That’s why I’m here. I | ||
| have to find a man who knows that universal language. An | ||
| alchemist.” | ||
| The conversation was interrupted by the warehouse boss. | ||
| “You’re in luck, you two,” the fat Arab said. “There’s a caravan | ||
| leaving today for Al-Fayoum.” | ||
| “But I’m going to Egypt,” the boy said. | ||
| “Al-Fayoum is in Egypt,” said the Arab. “What kind of Arab are | ||
| you?” | ||
| “That’s a good luck omen,” the Englishman said, after the fat | ||
| Arab had gone out. “If I could, I’d write a huge encyclopedia just | ||
| about the words luck and coincidence. It’s with those words that the | ||
| universal language is written.” | ||
| He told the boy it was no coincidence that he had met him with | ||
| Urim and Thummim in his hand. And he asked the boy if he, too, | ||
| were in search of the alchemist. | ||
| “I’m looking for a treasure,” said the boy, and he immediately | ||
| regretted having said it. But the Englishman appeared not to attach | ||
| any importance to it. | ||
| “In a way, so am I,” he said. | ||
| “I don’t even know what alchemy is,” the boy was saying, when | ||
| the warehouse boss called to them to come outside. | ||
| “I’M THE LEADER OF THE CARAVAN,” SAID A DARK-EYED, bearded man. “I | ||
| hold the power of life and death for every person I take with me. | ||
| The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men | ||
| crazy.” | ||
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