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Matthew Guillen, « Bartleby’s Preference: Res Ipsa Loquitur », Journal of the Short Story in English, ID : 10670/1.1vt72l
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I muse upon my country's ills-The Tempest bursting from the waste of TimeOn the world's fairest hope linked with man's foulest crime. Herman Melville’s short story, “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”, published in late 1853, involves a law clerk whose job profile - that of “scrivener”- in reality comprised a wide range of menial writing assignments: from the standardized drawing up of bills, bonds, deeds, leases, etc. to the mechanical copying of documents. Compared to the other...