"With submission, sir," said he, "yesterday I was thinking about Bartleby here, and I think that if he would but prefer to take a quart of good ale every day, it would do much towards mending him, and enabling him to assist in examining his papers."
February 18, 2026 at 3:06 AM
"With submission, sir," said he, "yesterday I was thinking about Bartleby here, and I think that if he would but prefer to take a quart of good ale every day, it would do much towards mending him, and enabling him to assist in examining his papers."
And here Bartleby makes his home; sole spectator, of a solitude which he has seen all populous—a sort of innocent and transformed Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage!
February 17, 2026 at 10:06 PM
And here Bartleby makes his home; sole spectator, of a solitude which he has seen all populous—a sort of innocent and transformed Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage!
"It is Billy Budd, who can only stutter. ... It is Melville's Bartleby, confining language to repetition. It is Faulkner's Benjy, an idiot. ... For every 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' there is Flannery O'Conner's 'Wise Blood' or 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find.'"
February 17, 2026 at 4:42 PM
"It is Billy Budd, who can only stutter. ... It is Melville's Bartleby, confining language to repetition. It is Faulkner's Benjy, an idiot. ... For every 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' there is Flannery O'Conner's 'Wise Blood' or 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find.'"
I resolved to assign Bartleby a corner by the folding-doors, but on my side of them, so as to have this quiet man within easy call, in case any trifling thing was to be done.
February 17, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I resolved to assign Bartleby a corner by the folding-doors, but on my side of them, so as to have this quiet man within easy call, in case any trifling thing was to be done.
Yo entraría en contacto con Melville a través de Bartleby el escribiente, que es una maravilla.
February 17, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Yo entraría en contacto con Melville a través de Bartleby el escribiente, que es una maravilla.
And here Bartleby makes his home; sole spectator, of a solitude which he has seen all populous—a sort of innocent and transformed Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage!
February 17, 2026 at 1:06 PM
And here Bartleby makes his home; sole spectator, of a solitude which he has seen all populous—a sort of innocent and transformed Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage!
Estou em 39% de "Bartleby, o escrivão" - Herman Melville
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February 17, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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The next day I noticed that Bartleby did nothing but stand at his window in his dead-wall revery.
February 17, 2026 at 9:06 AM
The next day I noticed that Bartleby did nothing but stand at his window in his dead-wall revery.
Gloucester and Bartleby
February 17, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Gloucester and Bartleby
picks up bartleby and gives them some cheese and a smooch
February 17, 2026 at 5:33 AM
picks up bartleby and gives them some cheese and a smooch
My first emotions had been those of pure melancholy and sincerest pity; but just in proportion as the forlornness of Bartleby grew and grew to my imagination, did that same melancholy merge into fear, that pity into repulsion.
February 17, 2026 at 5:06 AM
My first emotions had been those of pure melancholy and sincerest pity; but just in proportion as the forlornness of Bartleby grew and grew to my imagination, did that same melancholy merge into fear, that pity into repulsion.
Have you seen the "Bartleby" version in modern times and dress? I think it's available on YouTube. The great Paul Scofield played the good-hearted but exasperated boss.
February 16, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Have you seen the "Bartleby" version in modern times and dress? I think it's available on YouTube. The great Paul Scofield played the good-hearted but exasperated boss.
At first, Bartleby did an extraordinary quantity of writing.
February 16, 2026 at 8:06 PM
At first, Bartleby did an extraordinary quantity of writing.
Just had the big brained thought about Loki and Bartleby having a breeding kink despite not having any of the parts needed, and also playing house but accidentally in weird ass morbid ways at least for like a decade or so at a time before they get bored lol
February 16, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Just had the big brained thought about Loki and Bartleby having a breeding kink despite not having any of the parts needed, and also playing house but accidentally in weird ass morbid ways at least for like a decade or so at a time before they get bored lol
It was not to be thought of for a moment that Bartleby was an immoral person.
February 16, 2026 at 6:07 PM
It was not to be thought of for a moment that Bartleby was an immoral person.
bartleby brave witnessing the horrors
February 16, 2026 at 5:47 PM
bartleby brave witnessing the horrors
Ere revolving any complicated project, however, adapted to this end, I first simply suggested to Bartleby the propriety of his permanent departure.
February 16, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Ere revolving any complicated project, however, adapted to this end, I first simply suggested to Bartleby the propriety of his permanent departure.
7. Service by John Tottenham. A novel of labour in which Bartleby the Bookseller finds himself in 21st Century LA and rails at the minor idiocies of contemporary consumer culture. The most I’ve laughed at a book in years but mostly out of awkward recognition.
February 16, 2026 at 1:56 PM
7. Service by John Tottenham. A novel of labour in which Bartleby the Bookseller finds himself in 21st Century LA and rails at the minor idiocies of contemporary consumer culture. The most I’ve laughed at a book in years but mostly out of awkward recognition.
Last call to the published author alumni of #SciFanSat: Be sure to enter a vote for your favorite piece that you’d like to see win the Bartleby B. Boar nomination for January's issue! The peer poll closes in 3 days at 11:59 PM EST on February 19th!
February 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Last call to the published author alumni of #SciFanSat: Be sure to enter a vote for your favorite piece that you’d like to see win the Bartleby B. Boar nomination for January's issue! The peer poll closes in 3 days at 11:59 PM EST on February 19th!
Going up stairs to my old haunt, there was Bartleby silently sitting upon the banister at the landing.
February 16, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Going up stairs to my old haunt, there was Bartleby silently sitting upon the banister at the landing.
Bartleby was not to be seen.
February 16, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Bartleby was not to be seen.
It was Bartleby.
February 16, 2026 at 4:07 AM
It was Bartleby.
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The Coffee Shop That Shall Remain Nameless
A new coffee shop recently opened in my neighborhood. And being that one of my hobbies is coffee and the shops that provide said beverage, I had to go. This coffee shop shall remain nameless becaus…
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Tonight's viewing. Great Britain. 1972. Dir. Anthony Friedman. Based on Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville. Indicator blu ray.
February 16, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Tonight's viewing. Great Britain. 1972. Dir. Anthony Friedman. Based on Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville. Indicator blu ray.
Also, when a reference was going on, and the room full of lawyers and witnesses, and business driving fast, some deeply-occupied legal gentleman present, seeing Bartleby wholly unemployed, would request him to run round to his (the legal gentleman’s) office and fetch some papers for him.
February 16, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Also, when a reference was going on, and the room full of lawyers and witnesses, and business driving fast, some deeply-occupied legal gentleman present, seeing Bartleby wholly unemployed, would request him to run round to his (the legal gentleman’s) office and fetch some papers for him.