obsession
Couldn't stop, wouldn't stop, didn't see why anyone would ask.
The Man Who Let Gravity Draw
What kind of architect designs a church by hanging it upside down from a shed ceiling?
The Man Who Painted the Dead
How do you paint a wild bird at exact life size without it moving?
Present But Not Voting
What kind of man spends sixty-three years perfecting the instructions for his own stuffed body?
The Composer Who Flooded His Neighbors
What was the greatest composer in Europe doing upstairs that kept soaking the ceiling below?
The Notation on the Buttocks
What if the sheet music tattooed across a damned soul's buttocks in a 500-year-old painting of Hell turns out to be... actually playable?
The Wrapping
The man whose equations run every JPEG, MP3, and MRI scan came back from Egypt convinced heat was the secret to staying alive — and wore several overcoats indoors, in summer, until it killed him.
Paint Sacred Art
What does a 59-year-old Baptist preacher do when a face appears in a smudge of paint on his fingertip and tells him to start painting?
The Man Who Bought the Hotel So He Wouldn't Have to Leave
What does a billionaire do when the hotel manager tries to evict him from the suite he refuses to leave?
The Lady Must Go Home
What kind of master criminal steals a Gainsborough, then sleeps on top of her for twenty-five years?
The Man Who Would Not Be Seen
What does the richest man in America do when a photographer finally catches him on the street at age 80?
The Literalist
What does a sixteen-year-old do when his mother hides his clothes to keep him from following his father to the executioner?
Ten Hours, Ten Seconds
He calculated that ten hours of punching holes produced ten seconds of music, and he kept punching for forty years.