The Finnish example is of course no blueprint.
The book's centerpiece example is of a hospital janitor named Luke.
The food on offer, for example, is of a much higher standard than you'd find elsewhere.
While this particular example is, of course, a matter of personal taste, it raises the question of reader expectation.
A spectacular recent example is of the former owner of Aces Gold Casino, which until last year was a well-regarded offshore sports book in Curaçao.
The prime example is of course The Scream, famous for precisely this reason but unfortunately not part of the otherwise remarkable exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
The Surrealists loved the cinema, and visual artists and writers took to the new medium quickly (the prime example is, of course, Jean Cocteau).
The most famous example is, of course, the Mary Celeste, the 100ft brigantine which was found floating, crewless but well-provisioned, in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872.
In the manner of Robert Gober, Mr. Beck's has made many of his apparently found or appropriated objects: the pup tent, for example, is of stitched canvas, its camouflage design hand-painted.
One such example is of the highly publicised Benveniste affair, in which it was claimed that water contains a memory of the antibodies that were diluted from it – raising cries of victory from homeopaths around the world.
Perhaps the best known example is of Alexander Fleming, who was working at St Mary's Hospital in 1928 when he noticed that a culture of Staphylococcus aureus had become contaminated with mould – and the mould was destroying the bacteria.
