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Bartleby: The Scrivener | Herman Melville
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I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom as yet nothing that I know of has ever been written:--I mean the law-copyists or scriveners. I have known very many of them, professionally and privately, and if I pleased, could relate divers histories, at which good-natured gentlemen might smile, and sentimental souls might weep.
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dabbe
Bartleby: The Scrivener | Herman Melville
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#HumbleHarvest
#novella
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

The only Melville I've read to date. 😃

Deifio Me too 😅 13mo
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! 13mo
dabbe @Deifio #greatminds 🤩😃🤗 13mo
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dabbe @EclecticBookLover I just reread it not too long ago, and that word “prefer“ just makes that sentence so powerful! 🤩😃🤗 13mo
EclecticBookLover Absolutely! 13mo
Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 13mo
dabbe @Eggs 🩵🩶🩵 13mo
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dabbe
Bartleby: The Scrivener | Herman Melville
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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!! 😍🤩 1y
TheBookHippie It‘s a holiday bag!!! 😅👀🤷🏻‍♀️😂 1y
dabbe @Smrloomis 🤩🤣🤗 1y
dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤣🤩🤗 1y
Aimeesue OMG, the list of things you can put in there! 🤣🤣🤣 1y
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LindaLappin
Bartleby: The Scrivener | Herman Melville
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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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