Although inedible, Amflora is a kind of miracle potato on two counts: for one, there is its starch content, which makes it precious to the starch industry, a major employer in Sweden; and then there is its feisty resilience in surviving some 25 years of tests, regulations, rules, ordinances and applications for approval by both Sweden and the European Union, of which Sweden is a member.
"Fragility is really important; it makes it precious and adds value.
A nation's credibility is the type of asset that is easy to overlook, until an emergency makes it precious.
Instead, for the past five years, he has taken full advantage of his position as the figurehead of what began as an incubator of Western culture, addressing that culture's crisis by lifting up what made it precious in the first place.
Maliau's wildness is exactly what makes it precious; a stay on the rim more than acquaints you with this unique appeal.
It is unique and that is what makes it precious.
His sound is special, but he doesn't make it feel precious, or guarded, or set off.
The success in the multiplex chain sites will make it easier for Precious to expand, and it is seeking to add another 40 or so cinemas from Friday.
Some of the lines, in fact, that line (from another of the album's songs) about the 'temporary nature of any precious thing, that just makes it more precious.' He said that to me one time.
