"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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Monday, May 04, 2009
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