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The Devil and Miss Prym.
Saturday, July 24, 2010 "In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as I suspect, is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the same fate awaits those who believe those promises." 'I showed you a gold bar, which would give you the necessary financial independence to get out of here, to travel the world, to do whatever it is young women from small, out-of-the-way villages dream of doing. The gold is going to stay there; you know it's mine, but you could steal it if you wanted. And then you would be breaking one of the commandments: "Thou shalt not steal".' 'As for the other ten gold bars, they are worth enough to mean that none of the inhibitants of this village would ever need to work again. I didn't ask you to re-bury the gold bars because I'm going to move them to a place only I will know about. When you go back to the village, I want you to say that you saw them and that I am willing to hand them over to the inhibitants of Viscos on condition that they do something they never ever dream of doing. I want them to break the commandment "Thou shalt not kill"... Exactly what I said. I want them to commit a murder. I'm giving them a week. If, at the end of seven days, someone is found dead - it could be a useless old man, or someone with an incurable illness, the victim does not matter - then the money will go to the other villagers, and I will conclude that we are all evil.' 'If you steal the one gold bar but the village resists temptation, or vice versa, I will conclude that there are good and evil people - which would put me in a difficult position because it would mean that there's a spiritual struggle going on that could be won by either side.' 'Don't you believe in God and the spiritual world, in battles between devils and angels?' 'I need to know if we are good or evil. If we are good, God is just and will forgive me for all I have done, for the harm I wished on those who tried to destroy me, for the wrong decisions I took at key moments, for the proposition I am putting to you know - for He was the one who drove me towards the dark.' 'But if we're evil, then everything is permitted, I never took a wrong decision, we are all condemned from the start, and it doesn't matter what we do in this life, for redemption lies beyond either human thought or deed.' 'I would find life more acceptable if I was proved right and the world is evil. I would continue to suffer, but knowing that everyone else is suffering too would make the pain more bearable. But if only a few of us are condemned to suffer such terrible tragedies, then there is something very wrong with Creation.' - taken from the first few chapters of 'The Devil and Miss Prym' by Paulo Coelho Oh my.. how can one put down such a page-turner? I am on the edge of my feet every minute I am reading the book. Now, I'm halfway through the book and I swear the emotional roller-coaster is hardly bearable. I just had to blog about it, because the book is THAT good and I need to share it on the world wide web. It always amazes me how some writers are truly exceptional and extraordinary. |
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