TY - BOOK AU - Coelho,Paulo AU - Costa,Margaret Jull TI - Like the flowing river: : thoughts and reflections SN - 9780007235810 U1 - 869.442 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Harper KW - Short stories KW - Portuguese literature N1 - Translated from the Portuguese; A day at the mill; Prepared for battle, but with a few doubts; The way of the bow; The story of the pencil; How to climb mountains; The importance of a degree; In a bar in Tokyo; The importance of looking; Genghis Khan and his falcon; Looking at other people's gardens; Pandora's box; How one thing can contain everything; The music coming from the chapel; The devil's pool; The dead man wore pyjamas; The solitary piece of coal; Manuel is an important and necessary man; Manuel is a free man; Manuel goes to paradise; In Melbourne; The pianist in the shopping mall; On my way to the Chicago book fair; Of poles and rules; The piece of bread that fell wrong side up; Of books and libraries; Prague, 1981; For the woman who is all women; A visitor arrives from Morocco; My funeral; Restoring the web; These are my friends; How do we survive?; Marked out to die; The moment of dawn; A January day in 2005; A man lying on the ground; The missing brick; Raj tells me a story; The other side of the tower of Babel; Before a lecture; On elegance; Nha Chica of Baependi; Rebuilding the house; The prayer that I forgot; Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro; Living your own legend; The man who followed his dreams; The importance of the cat in meditation; I can't get in; Statutes for the new millennium; Destroying and rebuilding; The warrior and faith; In Miami harbour; Acting on impulse; Transitory glory; Charity under threat; On witches and forgiveness; On rhythm and the road; Travelling differently; A fairy tale; Brazil's greatest writer; The meeting that did not take place; The smiling couple (London, 1977); The second chance; The Australian and the newspaper ad; The tears of the desert; Rome : Isabella returns from Nepal; The art of the sword; In the blue mountains; The taste of success; The tea ceremony; The cloud and the sand dune; Norma and the good things; Jordan, the dead sea, 21 June 2003; In San Diego Harbour, California; The art of withdrawal; In the midst of war; The soldier in the forest; In a town in Germany; Meeting in the Dentsu gallery; Reflections on 11 September 2001; God's signs; Alone on the road; The funny thing about human beings; An around-the-world trip after death; Who would like this twenty-dollar bill?; The two jewels; Self-deception; The art of trying; The dangers besetting the spiritual search; My father-in-law, Christiano Oiticica; Thank you, President Bush; The intelligent clerk; The third passion; The Catholic and the Muslim; Evil wants good to prevail; The law of Jante; The old lady in Copacabana; Remaining open to love; Believing in the impossible; The storm approaches; Some final prayers ER -