"What Bartleby essentially dramatizes is not the pathos of dementia praecox but the bitter metaphysical pathos of the human situation itself; the cosmic irony of the truth that men are at once immitigably interdependent and immitigably forlorn."
--Newton Arvin, Herman Melville, A Critical Biography, 1950
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About Me
- Radigan Neuhalfen
- Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- Author of *The Steppe*, the novel of a man who lives alone in the Mongolian steppe, fighting -- and eating -- mythical monsters.
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