This "anti-atlas" is a peculiar and delightful compiling of disparately obsessive imaginations, selected on the criteria of strangeness, rarity, and originality, and arranged into eighteen sections, including "Strange Borders," "Based on the Underground," and "Watchamacallit".
Some clear sources of inspiration include Surrealism, Neue Sachlichkeit, Northern Renaissance painting, Picasso, cartooning and children's book illustration, all filtered through his obsessive, of-the-moment imagination.
In a recent e-mail interview, Ms. Watkins discussed learning about her father's life, the hold Nevada has on her imagination, her "obsessive and controlling" sense of play when she was a child and more.
The lessons of history are all too plain when the perceived iniquities of a certain population develop an obsessive grip on the public imagination.
Indeed, the strident contempt that the Parkland kids earned from some quarters of the gun lobby derived exactly from the strength of their witness: they are not the élitist intellectuals or compulsive do-gooders or obsessive gun confiscators of fervid imagination.
Though they prompt almost obsessive attention in the public imagination, they have been largely ignored by academic research".
Monaghan had always had an obsessive, visionary sensibility, and he applied his intelligence and imagination to his new pizzeria.
