Neck Deep and Other Predicaments by Ander Monson

Obsession, Part IV
(See Part I here, Part II here, and Part III here)

"And there is the pleasure of obsession itself, immersion in the world of esoteric detail in spite of (or maybe because of) the derision of the patzers who just don't understand what it is to lose yourself so completely in something, and who cares, finally, what that is?"

Neck Deep and Other Predicaments by Ander Monson