"Monomania" was one of the words of the day on my Google start page yesterday. It means "obsession with a single subject." I knew it was talking about me.
I've written here before how when I get involved in a project, I suffer from extensive monomania. In my lived life, too, I suffer from the same affliction in the form of (mild) obsessive-compulsive disorder. For a period of time I will become possessed—which is how I prefer to think of obsession—with something, and generally it gets repeated for some time.
I will sometimes eat the same food for multiple meals—and I'm talking here like four consecutive meals minimum—or use every spare minute I have to engage in some kind of obsessive activitiy: blogging, Nofriendo (what a friend of mine used to call Nintendo), even cleaning and reading.
Robert Hass says there are two kinds of poets: obsessives and hysterics. Hysterics draw the world toward their poems, but obsessives make the poem their world.
the first issue of Locuspoint is rockin'. good job to you and those involved.
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