It is also the strangest thing he has ever done, compelling but puzzling, its meanings hanging just out of reach, like the long story the protagonist, Tom Levy, hears in a Jamaican prison, which, in the course of the week it takes him to hear it, turns his hair white.
It may be instead that Kim is puzzling over the meaning of "do me a solid", which would even stretch some people who speak English.
The tourists are easy to spot: a white-haired and immaculately groomed couple picking their way across a landscape littered with blue tarpaulins; a Spanish-speaking family puzzling over the meaning of placards on display.
Yet, like the doctor, the prosecutor and the police chief, Naci (Yilmaz Erdogan), Arab Ali proves more complex than he seems because his words are those of a man puzzling through the meaning of life.
Disagreement, communication, inference, change of mind would all thus seem initially less puzzling for the meaning holist if he or she happens to be an anti-individualist as well.
Nothing has provoked more outrage on Emmy nominations morning the last couple of years than the exclusion of Tatiana Maslany, the 29-year-old Canadian actress who so thoroughly brings to life a variety of clones puzzling out the meaning of their existence on BBC America's sci-fi thriller "Orphan Black".
This puzzling task, whose true meaning remains tantalisingly opaque until the closing pages, becomes further complicated by the arrival from Wisconsin of Emily Parker, an American agent.
During the day I could hold my own in the water and in the canoes but when darkness came, Dan, Mike and Eldon waded into "War and Peace," "Crime and Punishment," the works of Huxley and other deep thinkers, discussing their merits and puzzling over their larger meaning.
It helps women decipher the meaning of puzzling text messages.
Readers are simply warned that when it comes to hip-hop lyrics "obfuscation is often the point, suggesting coded meanings worth puzzling over".
It's puzzling, since each 100-hectare plot (meaning two would swallow up Allegro's entire farm) is irrigated by a "pivot" – a vast length of galvanised pipe mounted on wheeled towers with sprinklers positioned along its length.
