His purpose in life was totravel, and, after two years of walking the Andalusian terrain, he knew all thecities of the region. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist. I'm used to theway I am.\"The boy didn't know what to say. Now, I can see that it hasn't been too bad. The boy thanked him, ate it, and went onhis way. One always had something thatthe other neededas if everything were indeed written by one hand. But I want each and everyone of you to swear by the God you believe in that you will follow my ordersno matter what. His hands began to tremble, and thewoman sensed it. In some places, the ground was covered with the salt of dried-up lakes. . I don't want anything else in life.But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have neverknown. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 12 / 94succeeded in discovering your destiny.\"The boy didn't know what a person's \"destiny\" was.\"It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. The boy, accustomed to recognizing omens, spoke to the merchant.\"Let's sell tea to the people who climb the hill.\"\"Lots of places sell tea around here,\" the merchant said.\"But we could sell tea in crystal glasses. He took out his money and counted it.\"We could get to the Pyramids by tomorrow,\" said the other, taking themoney. There, he couldexchange his book for a thicker one, fill his wine bottle, shave, and have ahaircut; he had to prepare himself for his meeting with the girl, and he didn'twant to think about the possibility that some other shepherd, with a largerflock of sheep, had arrived there before him and asked for her hand. Then she tookboth of his hands in hers, and began quietly to pray.It sounded like a Gypsy prayer. Everywherethere were stalls with items for sale. \"Not even the tribal chieftainsare able to see him when they want to. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 43 / 94He also said that this was not just a human gift, that everything on the faceof the earth had a soul, whether mineral, vegetable, or animalor even justa simple thought.\"Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth isalive and it has a soul. He had had the same dreamthat night as a week ago, and once again he had awakened before it ended.He arose and, taking up his crook, began to awaken the sheep that stillslept. Two customers came in today while you were working,and that's a good omen.\"People talk a lot about omens, thought the shepherd. The roof had fallen in long ago, and anenormous sycamore had grown on the spot where the sacristy had oncestood.He decided to spend the night there. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist. Several lost sheep. The world was huge and inexhaustible; he had only to allow hissheep to set the route for a while, and he would discover other interestingthings. Project Gutenberg. \"How many sheep do youhave?\"\"Enough,\" said the boy. \"Maybe no one herehas, either.\"The Englishman's eyes lit up. His heart squeezed, as if his chest had suddenlycompressed it. "It's the simple things in life that are most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.". \"Because you really like to travel.\"\"He knew what I was thinking,\" the boy said to himself. There are thousands of kilometers ofdesert between here and there.\"There was a moment of silence so profound that it seemed the city was He believed in omens. And you are at the pointwhere you're about to give it all up.\"\"And that's when you always appear on the scene?\"\"Not always in this way, but I always appear in one form or another.Sometimes I appear in the form of a solution, or a good idea. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 2 / 94I wanted to sleep a little longer, he thought. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 33 / 94He waited patiently for the merchant to awaken and open the shop. Peoplewere shouting at the new arrivals, dust obscured the desert sun, and thechildren of the oasis were bursting with excitement at the arrival of thestrangers. A small sliver of the stone can transform large quantities of metalinto gold.\"Having heard that, the boy became even more interested in alchemy. But they really don'tknow what they're saying. Since that morning in the marketplace, he had never again madeuse of Urim and Thummim, because Egypt was now just as distant a dreamfor him as was Mecca for the merchant. Urim and Thummim.It made the boy think of the old king, and it startled him to realize how longit had been since he had thought of him. The peoplewere also praying to heaven for protection.A long note was sounded on a bugle, and everyone mounted up. Someone had once told him that it was from there that theMoors had come, to occupy all of Spain.He could see almost the entire city from where he sat, including the plazawhere he had talked with the old man. \"And todo that, you need money. An allegorical novel, The Alchemist follows a young Andalusian shepherd in his journey to the pyramids of Egypt, after having a recurring dream of finding a treasure there. I am in search of that universal language, amongother things. Lots of shepherds passed through, selling their wool.\"It doesn't matter,\" he said to his sheep. He had been to the village only once, the year before. But he trusted in the old man, whohad said that, when you really want something, the universe alwaysconspires in your favor. But, whichever it is, I'm going to chargeyou for the consultation.\"Another trick, the boy thought. He had seen kingsand beggars walking the desert sands. I've already imagined the people who would be Itmade me very depressed. God hasprepared a path for everyone to follow. The boy was also saddened; his friend was in pursuit of hisdestiny. Maybe that'swhy they always stay close to me.The only things that concerned the sheep were food and water. \"But I want one-tenthof the treasure, if you find it.\"The boy laughedout of happiness. '\"The boy was embarrassed, and confessed that he had observed nothing.His only concern had been not to spill the oil that the wise man hadentrusted to him.\" 'Then go back and observe the marvels of my world,' said the wise man. Good afternoon.\"And he vanished around the corner of the plaza. He knew that wind: people called it the levanter,because on it the Moors had come from the Levant at the eastern end ofthe Mediterranean.The levanter increased in intensity. Like this book? Did you notice the beautiful parchments in mylibrary? Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 37 / 94scene that began the book. And the names of the people involved werevery difficult to pronounce. But then he remembered that he wasn't going to have topay anything.\"I didn't need to waste my time just for this,\" he said.\"I told you that your dream was a difficult one. \"The religion hereforbids it.\"The boy told him then that he needed to get to the Pyramids. I can learn something from the desert, too. Then when he spoke about me he would say that Iam Melchizedek, the king of Salem.He looked to the skies, feeling a bit abashed, and said, \"I know it's thevanity of vanities, as you said, my Lord. His parents had wanted him to become apriest, and thereby a source of pride for a simple farm family. It's always a positive force.\" He hadexchanged six sheep for two precious stones that had been taken from agold breastplate. And he asked the boy if he, too, were in search ofthe alchemist.\"I'm looking for a treasure,\" said the boy, and he immediately regrettedhaving said it. Thatwind had brought the Moors, yes, but it had also brought the smell of thedesert and of veiled women. Inhis pursuit of the dream, he was being constantly subjected to tests of hispersistence and courage. If the sand was too finefor the animals' hooves, they sought a way where the sand was moresubstantial. And he hadforgotten to mention that, when you have enough money to buy a flocklarger than the one you had before, you should buy it.The boy picked up his pouch and put it with his other things. It reminded him of thewool from his sheep his sheep who were now seeking food and water inthe fields of Andalusia, as they always had.\"They're not my sheep anymore,\" he said to himself, without nostalgia.\"They must be used to their new shepherd, and have probably alreadyforgotten me. \"Even if you cleaned my crystal for an entire yeareven if you earned a good commission selling every piece, you would stillhave to borrow money to get to Egypt. Theboy spoke very little with the Englishman, who spent most of his time withhis books.The boy observed in silence the progress of the animals and people acrossthe desert. The merchant spent the entire day mumbling behind the counter,telling the boy to be careful with the pieces and not to break anything.But he stayed with the job because the merchant, although he was an oldgrouch, treated him fairly; the boy received a good commission for eachpiece he sold, and had already been able to put some money aside. But he found it much more interesting to observe thecaravan and listen to the wind. As they satdown at the only table in the place, the crystal merchant laughed.\"You didn't have to do any cleaning,\" he said. He remembered what the old man had said about offering somethingyou didn't even have yet.\"I'd like you to take me there if you can. There were oases throughout the desert, but the tribesmen foughtin the desert, leaving the oases as places of refuge.With some difficulty, the leader of the caravan brought all his peopletogether and gave them his instructions. But an old king sometimes has totake some pride in himself.\" *How strange Africa is, thought the boy.He was sitting in a bar very much like the other bars he had seen along thenarrow streets of Tangier. Then he asked that everyone, including his own sentinels, handover their arms to the men appointed by the tribal chieftains.\"Those are the rules of war,\" the leader explained. Every step has to be followedexactly as it was followed by the masters.\"The boy learned that the liquid part of the Master Work was called the Elixirof Life, and that it cured all illnesses; it also kept the alchemist fromgrowing old. The years of research, the magicsymbols, the strange words and the laboratory equipment none of thishad made an impression on the boy. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 36 / 94an alchemist. Here I am, between my flock and mytreasure, the boy thought. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. All things are one.\"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you toachieve it.\"They were both silent for a time, observing the plaza and the townspeople.It was the old man who spoke first.\"Why do you tend a flock of sheep?\"\"Because I like to travel.\"The old man pointed to a baker standing in his shop window at one cornerof the plaza. The rest is up to Allah, including the danger.\"And he concluded by saying the mysterious word: \"Maktub.\"\"You should pay more attention to the caravan,\" the boy said to theEnglishman, after the camel driver had left. Video An illustration of an audio speaker. The only thing he had noticed was that talk ofwar was becoming more and more frequent. Other shops were opened that served tea in crystal, but they weren't atthe top of a hill, and they had little business.Eventually, the merchant had to hire two more employees. From where hestood, he saw for the first time that the old merchant's hair was very muchlike the hair of the old king. Thenthe two went off to have some more tea.\"I'm leaving today,\" said the boy. They were solitary individualswho no longer believed in things, and didn't understand that shepherdsbecome attached to their sheep. 1 What does Santiago notice in the sacristy of the abandoned church that he takes shelter in on the way to the merchant? Some of them were richpilgrims, traveling in caravans with servants and camels, but most of thepeople making the pilgrimage were poorer than I.\"All who went there were happy at having done so. During the dream, a child tells him to seek treasure at the foot of the Egyptian pyramids. A burning bush. But he knew that Salem wasn't in Andalusia. The old man continued, \"You have been areal blessing to me. But as he held Urim and Thummim in his hand, theyhad transmitted to him the strength and will of the old king. The group was to remain there atthe oasis until the conflict between the tribes was over. 12 by Ben Jonson. He should respect tradition.The Englishman was disappointed. With the girl withthe raven hair, his days would never be the same again.But finally the merchant appeared, and asked the boy to shear four sheep.He paid for the wool and asked the shepherd to come back the followingyear. In return, I needmoney to get to Egypt tomorrow.\"The merchant laughed. The Alchemist is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988. \"Hunches,\" his mother used to call them. There had been a time when many people knew ofhis shop: Arab merchants, French and English geologists, German soldierswho were always well-heeled. A shepherdalways takes his chances with wolves and with drought, and that's what The Englishman said nothing.And the murmur lasted longer than a simple vow would have. The boy smiled to himself. But let's say that the most important is that you have The story of the treasures Santiago finds along . Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist page 17. Neither the woman nor the old man were at allimpressed by the fact that he was a shepherd. The drivers carried thefreight themselves over such treacherous footing, and then reloaded thecamels. It's going to test thecaravan's every step to see if it's in time, and, if it is, we will make it to theoasis.\"\"If either of us had joined this caravan based only on personal courage, butwithout understanding that language, this journey would have been muchmore difficult.\"They stood there looking at the moon.\"That's the magic of omens,\" said the boy. He must be disguised to avoid encounters withthieves.\"Take these,\" said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stonethat had been embedded at the center of the breastplate. They reminded him of the old man.\"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you toachieve it,\" he had said.The boy was trying to understand the truth of what the old man had said.There he was in the empty marketplace, without a cent to his name, andwith not a sheep to guard through the night. He felt that he didn't want to do anything thatmight make him look like the Englishman. The dunes were changed constantlyby the wind, yet these were the same sands he had known since he was achild. 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