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Bartleby

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Bartleby
refuses to associate with others or even to mingle with other employees. [Am. Lit.: Melville Bartleby the Scrivener]
See : Aloofness
Bartleby
copyist in Wall Street office; refuses to do anything but copy documents. [Am. Lit.: “Bartleby the Scrivener”]
See : Disobedience
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45pm This hilarious teen comedy from Steve Pink, the screenwriter of cult comedies High Fidelity and Grosse Pointe Blank, follows the fortunes of slacker Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long, above, with costars).
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Baffled by Bartleby's repeated refusal to fulfill even the basic duties of his job (with his infamous line "I would prefer not to"), the unnamed lawyer-narrator runs a gamut of emotions from sympathy to anger until he realizes that the only legitimate emotion he should feel towards Bartleby is compassion.
Speaking with the "Tongues of Men and of Angels": addressing human ... by Cox, Rosemary D. / Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
 
 
 
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