Orin's interview with Steeply (p. 1039)
Bain wasted huge amounts of time on all these countless rituals of washing, cleaning, checking things, walking, […] could only go through a doorway if he'd felt all around the frame of the doorway by hand, checking the frame for God knows what, and then was totally unable to trust his senses and always had to recheck the doorway he'd just checked.
Context
Marlon Bain's O.C.D.: the check that demands rechecking of itself, a self-feeding loop that grinds life to a halt. Kin to the quit/binge wheel, filed as texture.