YES YES OH MY GOSH YOU'RE MISSING SO MUCH BEST SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE HATING BARTLEBY DOES NOT COMPUTE DOES NOT COMPUTE BRAIN ESSPLODE--*pop*
I certainly hope Williams tells you guys about how and why Melville wrote this. I promise it's not dumb or pointless.
And dead letters are letters that can't get where they're supposed to go. (Wrong address or whatever.) Bartleby's job was destroying thwarted correspondence. I totally blame Williams for this. Without context, it's a puzzling story. (Sorry; I read it the first time with Wiliams in the American novel class, and then I had it last quarter with American Lit Goddess Lucy Rinehart, and I assure you it's good.)
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YES YES OH MY GOSH YOU'RE MISSING SO MUCH BEST SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE HATING BARTLEBY DOES NOT COMPUTE DOES NOT COMPUTE BRAIN ESSPLODE--*pop*
I certainly hope Williams tells you guys about how and why Melville wrote this. I promise it's not dumb or pointless.
And dead letters are letters that can't get where they're supposed to go. (Wrong address or whatever.) Bartleby's job was destroying thwarted correspondence.
I totally blame Williams for this. Without context, it's a puzzling story. (Sorry; I read it the first time with Wiliams in the American novel class, and then I had it last quarter with American Lit Goddess Lucy Rinehart, and I assure you it's good.)
Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!
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Your icon makes me giggle, by the way.