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* ''[[Superman]]: Last Son of Krypton''. When Superboy gives a teenage Lex Luthor his own laboratory, Lex goes into this state.
{{quote| Some of Lex's classmates and a few of the teachers he had not yet intimidated left food outside the laboratory door. Clark Kent, the only student that the Smallville High faculty trusted not to copy answers that were often more accurate than teachers' answer keys, got the job of leaving Lex's tests and homework in the laboratory mail slot. Some days the food was gone in the morning, but it generally remained. Twice during the two weeks the accumulated assignment pages were tugged in through the mail slot. The next morning, both times, they were in a neat pile, correct and completed, on the ground outside under a basket of rotted fruit. No one ever saw the door open, not ever. Even Superboy had no idea what was going on inside. He had lined the walls and venetian blinds with thin lead sheeting. For three weeks Lex was very like a mystical medieval hermit living in a cave.}}
* In ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' (the book, not the musical), the title character tells [[The Hero|Christine]] that he sometimes goes weeks on end working on his opera, ''Don Juan Triumphant'', without eating or sleeping much. Unfortunately for him, [[Deconstruction|a few weeks in the madness place have to inevitably be made up for by another few weeks of sleeping most of the time due to being utterly exhausted]].