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Bartleby: The Scrivener | Herman Melville

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1. The only thing I don't like about retirement is that I couldn't do it my entire life. 😂 What I liked least about teaching was dealing with some honors' parents. “Why did Johnny only get 98/100 on his essay? Please explain in detail why you took off 2 points.“ 🙄
2. Tagged. It's not a book but a very long short story. Whenever tasked to do anything, Bartleby would answer, “I'd prefer not to.“
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TheSpineView Kudos to you for having to deal with the parents. Thanks for playing! 2mo

Suet624 I‘m with you on retirement. Why didn‘t I start sooner? 2mo

dabbe @TheSpineView Anytime! 🩶🖤🩶 2mo

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dabbe @Suet624 IKR? 🤩😂🤗 2mo

Susanita Right??? 2mo

dabbe @Susanita 🩶🖤🩶 2mo

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Bartleby: The Scrivener | Herman Melville

#HumbleHarvest
#novella
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The only Melville I've read to date. 😃

Deifio Me too 😅 1y

EclecticBookLover I had to read this in college, and I didn't care for it. Now, having more life experiences, I understand Bartleby so much more! 1y

dabbe @Deifio #greatminds 🤩😃🤗 1y

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dabbe @EclecticBookLover I just reread it not too long ago, and that word “prefer“ just makes that sentence so powerful! 🤩😃🤗 1y

EclecticBookLover Absolutely! 1y

Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 1y

dabbe @Eggs 🩵🩶🩵 1y

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dabbe

Bartleby: The Scrivener | Herman Melville

Yeah, I think I need this bag. Or as a poster to put over my face at (ahem) certain times.

https://www.mhpbooks.com/merchandise/bag/

Smrloomis I LOVE this!! 😍🤩 2y

TheBookHippie It‘s a holiday bag!!! 😅👀🤷🏻‍♀️😂 2y

dabbe @Smrloomis 🤩🤣🤗 2y

dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤣🤩🤗 2y

Aimeesue OMG, the list of things you can put in there! 🤣🤣🤣 2y

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vivastory

Bartleby: The Scrivener | Herman Melville

Moby Dick was tied with King Lear as my favorite book read last year. I have never read another book like it before. Bartleby is a jewel of a novella that starts as an employee's admirable quiet rebellion against the extra tasks that are piled on his workload with one of the greatest mottos of 19th C American lit, “I would prefer not to.“ Bartleby soon transforms into a complex story as Bartleby begins to refuse to do more & more with the (cont)

vivastory motivations left to the reader to discern. It is a work that does not provide ready explanations & Bartleby is a figure that has endured for very good reason.
Book 4 of #MidwayBOTY23 2y

Leftcoastzen That should be my official Tshirt! 2y

KathyWheeler I read this so long ago in undergrad and loved it. It might be time for a reread. 2y

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shortsarahrose Moby Dick is my favorite of all time! Bartleby is so good, too, for precisely the reasons you describe. 2y

vivastory @Leftcoastzen I have a shirt with the phrase. Should wear it to work lol 2y

vivastory @KathyWheeler I will def revisit in the future when I have read other Melville. I plan on reading The Confidence Man next. 2y

vivastory @shortsarahrose It is very rare for me to have a favorite book of the year but I knew while reading MD that it was going to be my favorite of the year. 2y

KathyWheeler @vivastory it also took me over 40 years to get around to reading Moby Dick. I was so sure I wouldn‘t like it, but I decided to read it as part of a Litsy buddy read a couple of years ago and, to my shock, I loved it. 2y

batsy I love this book! I need to tackle the big one at some point 🐳 2y

Liz_M @Leftcoastzen I have the coffee mug 😁 which made an appearance on many COVID work zoom calls @vivastory 😂 2y

dabbe “Ah! Bartleby, Ah! humanity!“ LOVED this! 🖤🤍🖤 2y

vivastory @batsy I read 70-80 pages per week and was finished in about a month. The chapters are really brief but there's a lot to think about & it often switches between different perspectives so it never dragged for me 2y

vivastory @dabbe One of the best novellas I've read 💙 2y

vivastory @Liz_M Lol that's fantastic 2y

Branwen Bartleby is one of my favorite names ever. I definitely have a stuffed crocodile named Bartleby! 😂🐊 2y

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Bartleby: The Scrivener | Herman Melville

#weeklyreport
I completed 5 books this week. 2 graphic novels, completely different from one another & I didn't care for either one. The other 3 more than made up. The tagged book has been on my TBR for years & was fantastic. The Simenon was great, as was the Alice Notley. In the middle of Ransome's Swallows & Amazons & have been reading random short stories (lately mostly from Bradbury).
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Cinfhen Glad the three other books were winners😊 2y

shortsarahrose Love Bartleby! 2y

dabbe Ah, humanity!❣️ 2y

rwmg Granted we can assume all sorts of weird postures while reading but could anyone read in that position? 2y

vivastory @rwmg Ziggy Stardust can! 2y

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LindaLappin

Bartleby: The Scrivener | Herman Melville

An eerie tale of passive resistance, nonconformism, civil disobedience. Bartelby
efficient employee, forlorn outsider, one day just refuses to carry on at his mindless task, offering his boss this explanation: I would prefer not to. And ends up going to jail.
#SavvySettings Day 23, #Prison. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤📚👍🏻 3y

Eggs Sounds intriguing-some days that‘s me…but a job can be a prison too….. 3y

LindaLappin @Eggs so true 3y

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