The piece is written by Pico Iyer; he's a fairly well-known writer (novels & travel writing). The style is fine with me, except that in this case I was actuall

The piece is written by Pico Iyer; he's a fairly well-known writer (novels & travel writing). The style is fine with me, except that in this case I was actually interested to know the boring facts of the situations he was being dreamily ambiguous about.