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High fashion it is not, but I was amused by one of the new Word Series t-shirts from Novel-T . . .
This one from Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener”:
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Remember Bartleby? He was the human photocopier who worked on Wall Street and asserted himself by “preferring not” to do any more work.
(Crispin Glover plays a postmodern version of the character in Bartleby, an odd little film from 2000 that out-Offices “The Office.”)
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And this is a recent mixed-media interpretation of Bartleby from Diary of a Lost Girl:
This one from Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener”:
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Remember Bartleby? He was the human photocopier who worked on Wall Street and asserted himself by “preferring not” to do any more work.
(Crispin Glover plays a postmodern version of the character in Bartleby, an odd little film from 2000 that out-Offices “The Office.”)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9UXiJi62Np-EWKllc8OcXH0UyZW-6lpY4BWQC36xFoe66DDZ8BZ_BPDwQpErGkMOix8X_hXe2lwFWCFXBKeYW3SW8Ulz3v2yG6CIoJGFX5x0bOFCDUf7oQyAMHTiNvF3wOEzPXTu03-4/s320/bart+film.jpg)
And this is a recent mixed-media interpretation of Bartleby from Diary of a Lost Girl:
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Would you wear one? Or would you prefer not to?
*(Instead of “Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!” [the final lines of the story].)
5 comments:
"I prefer not to," is a phrase I often say -- to myself.
I prefer not to do a lot of things.
Never seen "Bartleby." I need to get with it!
I prefer not to. And that model should have preferred not to as well. She's too curvy for the style.
Do you think I can get away with wearing that tee on a Staff Development Day?
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