The Ennet House living room: Gately, Day, Lenz — "Randy Lenz’s obsessive compulsions include the…"
Randy Lenz’s obsessive compulsions include the need to be north, a fear of disks, a tendency to constantly take his own pulse, a fear of all forms of timepieces, and a need to always know the time with great precision.
Context
Lenz's dossier line, placed immediately after the reeks-of-passing-time paragraph — the man is the house's climate given a pathology. He can't bear clocks and can't bear not knowing what they'd say: lived time as pure double-bind, checked against his own pulse at the wrist. The scene's watch war is this sentence dramatized.