It emerged from the workshop of Frank Gehry, who was then making furniture for Knoll and whose staff knolled his studio regularly. And you can imagine my delight on learning that 2012 is the 25th anniversary – a pleasing number, better than 24 or 26 – of the invention of the word "knolling", defined as "the process of arranging like objects in parallel or 90-degree angles as a method of organisation". I'm thinking, above all, of the blog Things Organized Neatly, although the image-sharing service Pinterest has also become a hub for neatniks, who post photos of tidily arranged things on "pinboards" that are themselves neatly organised. Speaking as a person who enjoys arranging my groceries on the supermarket belt so as to use the space in an optimal fashion, I've been thrilled to witness the recent awakening of neat pride. One sad legacy of "anal retentiveness" is that it has cast suspicion on the simple pleasures of being a neat freak. Critics of Freud have suggested that he often constructed his supposedly universal theories on similarly shaky ground, but I think we all know they're just suffering from repressed attraction to their mothers.
It arose in an era when families were large and indoor plumbing was new, argues the psychoanalyst Robert Galatzer-Levy: bowel-related matters probably did figure centrally in the life of young Sigmund, as he waited for his siblings to finish in the bathroom. Few ideas of Freud's stand more discredited than his claim about the importance of bowel control in the formation of personality. The bed rose up from this sea of refuse like a small island of tidiness.'Y ou are anal retentive," reads a possibly apocryphal T-shirt, "if you wonder whether there should be a hyphen in 'anal retentive'." As methods of psychiatric diagnosis go, this isn't great – but then again, "anal retentiveness" is itself a bogus notion. Long Arm of Law Reaches Out to Woo Muslims Evan Perez 2011
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Last year, she met with Yemeni-American community leaders to explain how to pack airplane luggage, after two Michigan men of Yemeni descent taped bottles of Pepto-Bismol to cellphones in their checked bags-apparently for tidiness-, inadvertently triggering fears of a bombing plot. It is the very lack of tidiness, the Starbucks spill, the torn corners that make it something than is much more than the sum of its parts.Īnya Hindmarch: Electronic or Paper? Anya Hindmarch 2011 Jim Taylor 2011Īnd there can be tidiness * and* clutter – real wunderkammers were, after all, well-organized. Jim Taylor: Four Surefire Ways to Send Messages to Your Children Dr. When in the presence of Irish, blacks wallowed in filth and idleness but “where the blacks were found by themselves, we generally encountered tidiness, and some sincere attempt at industry and honest self-support.”Ī Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010īut scrupulous tidiness takes time and Gerald the perfectionist lost his chance to go elk hunting up north in Ten Sleep country.įor example, we want to send them the messages of tidiness and responsibility for their belongings, so, every evening before they go to bed, our girls pile their books on the coffee table in our living room and put away their toys in their bedrooms.ĭr. Jonathan Kim: The Planeteers Want YOU! Captain Planet Turns 20 2010 Why would a kid want to clean up his toys in service of " tidiness" when they're so much easier to find on the floor? Old Caravan Days Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874
He had a great many housewifely ways, and his tidiness was a satisfaction to Grandma Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother 2009 Neatness, tidiness, is easy: gaze upon a manicured lawn, a minimalist room, where there is nothing to disrupt or offend one’s line of sight, and there is nothing to think about, nothing to provoke the imagination.
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