On a recent afternoon, Professor Loase sat in his office and talked about his 16-year fascination with mathematical modeling.
It was the start of a 55-year fascination that Mr. Coe would share through major exhibitions he curated, his writings and eventually his donations.
"It's just such a great story," said Fred Calabretta, the museum's curator of collections, who has had a 25-year fascination with Comer's story.
And the start-up success stories aren't just the result of first-year fascination.
Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin discusses the long-awaited next novel in the series, Mary Ann in Autumn, and explains his 30-year fascination with the same characters.
In Views of Main Street, the artist's use of tattered furniture Couch (2012), Chair (2003), and Untitled (2011), an oddly shaped maroon carpet, presented on a wall as a cross between painting and sculpture— illustrates most forcibly the artist's fifteen-year fascination with the effects of inequality.
Although the zoo changed very little from year to year, my fascination grew bigger and bigger with every visit.
Fifty years on, fascination with the extraordinary sequence of events led Andrew Lloyd-Webber to write a musical entitled Stephen Ward, which opens in the West End on Tuesday.
For Mr. Prince, a bibliophile with a special love for the Beat years, the fascination stems partly from Berman's Zelig-like connections in those years: his circle included Allen Ginsberg, Dennis Hopper and Henry Miller.
(On a country where capital punishment has been off the statue books for over 40 years, our fascination with the idea is perhaps somewhat curious, but somehow "name your favourite three courses" doesn't quite pack the same punch).
