Still, in the narrow, muddy streets of Ein Hilweh in Lebanon, Balata on the West Bank and the 57 other camps, where cinder block homes are painted with Palestinian flags and images of rifles, they treasure keys to homes in the Galilee, where they once lived.
So begins his collecting, and soon he has amassed a fine assortment of treasures: keys, coins, chess pieces, a harmonica, a toy car.
It's a national treasure and the key to new knowledge of our social and naval history.
The "great adventure" of Le Grand Meaulnes recalls the "great game" of Kim; and the novel is full of Stevensonian gestures (the incomplete map, the quest for lost treasure, the skeleton key, the locked chest containing the vital clue).
"We bought the company and isolated the key treasure in there," said Peter Mayer, who was Penguin's chief executive at the time and is now the president and publisher of Overlook Press.
These chests can either contain a key, treasure, or one of the three element medallions.
Tawada's stories shift between the transparent and the opaque, even on the same page; they agitate the mind like songs half remembered or treasure boxes whose keys are locked within.
How to efficiently manage and utilize these treasures is the key problem for benchmark database.
To this day the location of his buried treasures remains a key aspect of the oral tradition surrounding his figure.
But is the cryptic letter a key to treasure or treason?
