find the key

In open play, they could not find the key to unlock an Everton defence that sat deep and much of this owed to a lack of focal point up front.

“They feel like invitations to optimistic worlds where, ultimately, joy is possible, if only you can find the key. We’re living through some very heavy, very dark times — we have been for a while — and this story is meant to be an escape — and a respite from darkness.”

When he couldn’t find the key to an old filing cabinet that contained some of his personal papers, he took a crowbar to it and deposited stacks of campaign documents and legal pads in my lap.

No matter how hard I looked, I couldn’t find the key, though.

Somewhere between the seriousness and the absurdity, you will, with any luck, find the key to everything.