Dickens carried a compass to arrange his bed
Charles Dickens could write a thousand-page serial, but he couldn't sleep if a bed was facing the wrong way. He carried a compass everywhere he traveled, completely rearranging the furniture in any hotel room he stayed in. He insisted his bed must align perfectly North-to-South, believing it synchronized his creative energies with the Earth's magnetic currents.

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