Anal /ˈeɪn(ə)l/ (adj.) Excessively pedantic (supposedly owing to conflict over toilet-training in infancy, or having been beaten up, had one’s lunch money stolen and ones head jammed down the lavatory at boarding school). Consequently, a anal retentivity can be a single, overwhelming source of joy for a certain kind of legal eagle, whose infantile psychosexual development promotes defecation — over your elegant draft — as the major source of sensuous pleasure and self-awareness. It is as well that you understand this, so you can react to it. See especially the anal paradox.
