The insects are armored soldiers, but also workaholics and writers, grotesque in their obsessive tasks; "dead by dawn, but what a song, an inconsolable male chorus".
And although her self-absorption suits the obsessive nature of the task she's set for herself, it also allows for some extremely precious prose.
Dickinson, she said, was an obsessive thinker for whom tasks such as baking and gardening offered relief.
She was one of those list makers who are obsessive about crossing off tasks as they were accomplished, and she never threw away her completed lists.
Perhaps – some think – she is the means by which he could come across as a sympathetic human being struggling with an impossible task, rather than an obsessive technocrat buried in work.
They all made shrewd choices that add up to an album about obsessive love rendered meticulously -- not so different a task from playing Desdemona at the Met, but with a new vocabulary.
Jake Gyllenhaal's Robert Graysmith, who pursues the murderer for years, is another of Fincher's inspired outsiders, an obsessive who so thoroughly gives himself over to his task that he almost destroys his own life.
A bear of a man in bullish form, Boulton takes David Cameron and the coalition government to task for what he perceives to be its obsessive news management.
"My main task at C&A is to replicate Inditex's obsessive focus on its products and its shops," says Mr Pavia, who has hired people from Inditex to help him.
In several neuropsychiatric disorders, e.g. schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder, the neuropsychological symptoms include impaired performance on tasks requiring behavioural shifting [ 1, 2], pointing to deficits in cognitive or behavioural flexibility.
