Tuesday, Jul 01, 2014

Charles Dickens had a bunch of strange habits; today we'd call him OCD(ickens). He was a neat freak in the extreme. He wouldn't write unless the room's furniture was arranged in a certain way; he brushed his (thinning) hair constantly, literally hundreds of times a day; he was incredibly superstitious, touching everything three times for good fortune, sleeping every single night in the same position: his head facing the North Pole. He explained it by stating that "earth currents and positive and negative electricity are present and that in order to help his creativity he had to be aligned with the planet's magnetic fields. (If only he could have gone to Sit n' Sleep for a comfortable solution … and then maybe his mattress would have been free---eee---ee.)