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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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You think fleetingly of Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, a 19th-century office drone who resists change with an averring, "I would prefer not to.
I'm adrift in a newsroom of change by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
 
 
 
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