My friend who is applying for a job at a bagel shop: Oh my God! What if I made my resume in the shape of a bagel?! They'd totally hire me, right? Me: Yes! Terrific idea! ... wait, seriously?
Having thus excluded conversation and desisted from study, he had neither business nor amusement. His ideas, therefore, being neither renovated by discourse nor increased by reading, wore gradually away, till at last his anger congealed into madness.