The next stage is usually an obsessive-compulsive thing – paying attention to the body in great detail.
Ron, it turns out, has a little obsessive-compulsive thing about food (no food group on his plate can touch another), and Gail, who is an aerobics instructor, has a tight body and a slack brain.
You know, one good thing makes up for a bad thing... a compulsive reading of signs and meaning in everyday life......
Yallop is interested in collecting as an expression of the Victorian age – "a compulsive urge to do things bigger and better, to bring as many elements as possible under one protective umbrella, to control, to regulate and to extend".
A compulsive snapper of all things stylish, kitschy or arcane, Susanna Lau, the blogger known as Susie Bubble, wandered earlier this summer through the Meiji Park flea market in Tokyo taking pictures of vintage Hawaiian shirts, toy robots and tiny Minnie Mouse dolls to upload to her phone.
For as Edmund Wilson, a compulsive learner of new things, once put it: "The experience of mankind on the earth is always changing as man develops and has to deal with new combinations of elements; and the writer who is to be anything more than an echo of his predecessors must always find expression for something which has never yet been expressed, must master a new set of phenomena.. . .
The museum was established by Robert Opie, a compulsive collector whose fascination with everyday things began on a railway station platform.
A school friend, Chuck Cartmell, recalled young Jimmy as a compulsive experimenter: 'He was always making things in the kitchen with baking soda.
A compulsive list-maker, Danny later compiled Things I Love About Mariane which included, "Wears same shirt two days running if she feels like it" and "Dances with or without music".
Since Asako is a compulsive contrarian, she immediately decides that the one thing that might give shape and meaning to her life would be to have a child.
