Friday, October 17, 2008

Bartleby the Scrivener




This enigmatic novella by Herman Melville is subtitled "A Story of Wall Street". Appropriate for these troubled times? Well, not really. It was written in 1853 and the setting is a long-gone business way of life. Bartleby is a humble copy person, a human Xerox machine. But he can do one thing that a machine cannot...he can choose.

1 comment:

Priscilla said...

Well, Bartleby, they "would prefer not to" read about you.