Of course, the bound treasure trove of paper and ink is still celebrated, especially by the Germans — who have managed to keep the book's cost and clout high with the Fixed Book Price Agreement, which stipulates that new books cannot be discounted in stores or online — and by the Chinese, the word's largest supplier of paper.
Looking over some of the 11,000 treasured pieces of paper that have consumed his life for 34 years, Dwight Cleveland readily admits that he is out of the ordinary.
For decades, scholars relied mainly on memory to match up pieces of the Cairo genizah, a treasure trove of papers that include works by the rabbinical scholar Maimonides, parts of Torah scrolls and prayer books, reams of poetry and personal letters, contracts, and court documents, even recipes (there is a particularly vile one for honey-wine).
It's fast paced, edgy, a real treasure trove of papers for me to read at leisure, and goes way outside the usual, expected and conventional boundaries of style of prose and rigor we "normally expect" of such scientific publications.
I treasure the scrap of paper on which Simone de Beauvoir wrote: "Madame, I have neither the time nor the inclination to do what you ask".
When this treasured set of papers is stolen, he must search Long Life Town for the missing pieces.
This is, said Stacey Bredhoff, senior curator, National Archives and Records Administration, the first major touring exhibition of the archives' greatest treasures, drawn from billions of paper documents.
You can use lots of things as the treasure, including pencils, pens, pieces of paper, and even actual money!
" They promise an exciting new view of the works and the creative processes of this key figure," said professor Andrew Webber, who is leading the UK team, and who called the Schnitzler papers a "treasure of Modernist literary culture".
This paper is a treasure of clarity and thoroughness.
