I’m trying to read Veronika Decide Morir (trans: Veronika Decides to Die) in Spanish right now. It’s quite difficult because I haven’t practiced my Spanish in almost three years. I’m a little less than a hundred pages into it, but it’s taken me almost 4 hours of reading and looking up words.
Anyway, in the book he tells a story about a king of a kingdom and the sorcerer who attempts to ruin him. The sorcerer poisons the water source in the kingdom to drive people to madness. The king, on the other hand, drinks from a private water source. Things go according to plan and the people go crazy. The king, trying to stop the madness, tries to take security measures, but everyone thinks he’s the crazy one. In the end, in order to rule, he ends up drinking from the poisoned water source himself. Once he is like everyone else, they believe he has regained his sanity. And, in this secluded kingdom, the crazy king and all the crazy people lived happily ever after.
I liked this story. It leads me to believe Paulo Coelho knows what it’s like to do group projects.
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best analogy of all time ever.
Comment by Melinda Arbuckle — December 5, 2007 @ 1:48 pm
hello!
I’m a Paulo Coelho’s fan and I don’t know if you heard about his blog
http://www.paulocoelhoblog.com
I’ve started as a fan and now I’m collaborating with him and thought that you would like to enter his universe.
Check the blog.
if you want, or subscribe to his newsletter
http://www.warriorofthelight.com/engl/index.html
You’ll see a community of warriors of light sharing ideas, dreams and most importantly following their personal legend.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
The Warrior of Light knows that he must act, but he must allow room for the Universe to act too.(Warrior of Light)
See u there and have a great day!
Aart
Comment by aarthilal — December 6, 2007 @ 12:37 pm
lol very interesting. funny about the group projects. so how does the title relate?
Comment by Jessica — December 8, 2007 @ 2:14 am