He made an unpleasant racket with his chair; spilled his sandbox; in mending his pens, impatiently split them all to pieces, and threw them on the floor in a sudden passion; stood up, and leaned over his table, boxing his papers about in a most indecorous manner, very sad to behold in an elderly man.
- Bartleby the Scrivener, in describing Turkey
Somehow I find this hilarious, and rather apt to describe my own state of mind.
