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”:
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.”)
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”:
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.”)
And this is a recent mixed-media interpretation of Bartleby from Diary of a Lost Girl:
Would you wear one? Or would you prefer not to?
*(Instead of “Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!” [the final lines of the story].)
"I prefer not to," is a phrase I often say -- to myself.
ReplyDeleteI prefer not to do a lot of things.
ReplyDeleteNever seen "Bartleby." I need to get with it!
ReplyDeleteI prefer not to. And that model should have preferred not to as well. She's too curvy for the style.
ReplyDeleteDo you think I can get away with wearing that tee on a Staff Development Day?
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