And yet his book is a powerfully evocative account full of vivid detail: an outdoor psychodrama workshop on a favourite North Californian beach, with pillow-bashing and rage outbursts, matches the angry, concentrated faces of the surfers to seaward.
One of them grabbed my arm while the other started kicking me, his smile fading, taking his job more and more seriously, a more and more concentrated expression on his face, an expression of anger and hate.
A few minutes later, I did spy an oddly concentrated look on Emily's face and thought she might be on the verge of going over to chat with five students, pick up a quick $50.
The bard's bald head and face, packed full of mirth, is separated from his body by the most enormous ruff and, despite his concentrated expression, he seems similarly detached from the whoosh he has set in motion.
My effort appeared to be futile but based on the concentrated, intense expression on his face as I spoke, I knew he was absorbing the sentiment.
Carefully drawn in blue ballpoint, London and Beijing-based Kwok homes in on ecstatic faces, concentrated expressions, and looks of surprise, as orgasm hits and unbelievably copious emissions spatter across the paper: there's a Jew with his peyot ringlets, a dog-collared priest, a Buddhist monk having a temporary nirvana.
In the first chapter, Mr. Bornstein argues that social entrepreneurs are necessary because governments "appear increasingly impotent in the face of concentrated corporate power".
"The merged entity will furthermore face a concentrated retail base, such as supermarkets for print books and large online retailers for ebooks, like Amazon".
But it is also a powerful argument about what had taken place in our economy, and the need to defend not only political freedom but economic opportunity in the face of concentrated wealth.
