l. The frat boy who made special trips to Abercrombie & Fitch “waspiecing together a theory about the world,” while the righteous Hsu, who had also started writingfor Asian American newspapers, assumed that whenever he and Ken would make a list of the fewAsian characters on sitcoms, they “were just goofing off and passing time.” But some of Ken’s“theory” seemed to leave its mark on Hsu — even if, like anything whose influence is so profoundit’s subterranean, it manifested less as a doctrine than as a disposi
Ken’s influence didn’t appear as direct teaching, but changed the way he sees the world.

