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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 33m

I resolved to argue the matter over with him again.

Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 1h

"gritted Nippers—"I’d _prefer_ him, if I were you, sir," addressing me—"I’d _prefer_ him; I’d give him preferences, the stubborn mule!

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 2h

Some few days after this, I again obtained admission to the Tombs, and went through the corridors in quest of Bartleby; but without finding him.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 3h

It rather proceeds from a certain hopelessness of remedying excessive and organic ill. To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 4h

Why, simply by recalling the divine injunction: "A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another."

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 7h

"In mercy’s name, who is he?"

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 9h

At last I see it, I feel it; I penetrate to the predestinated purpose of my life.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 10h

My first emotions had been those of pure melancholy and sincerest pity; but just in proportion as the forlornness of Bartleby grew and grew to my imagination, did that same melancholy merge into fear, that pity into repulsion.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 11h

I said something in condolence with him.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 12h

"Are you looking for the silent man?"

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, thought I, it is evident enough that Bartleby has been making his home here, keeping bachelor’s hall all by himself.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 14h

"Ginger Nut," said I, willing to enlist the smallest suffrage in my behalf, "what do _you_ think of it?"

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 15h

"There"—and I held towards him the fourth quadruplicate.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 17h

Turkey was a short, pursy Englishman, of about my own age—that is, somewhere not far from sixty.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 18h

Yes, Bartleby, stay there behind your screen, thought I; I shall persecute you no more; you are harmless and noiseless as any of these old chairs; in short, I never feel so private as when I know you are here.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 19h

But he wrote on silently, palely, mechanically.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 20h

"Bartleby," said I, in the kindest tone I could assume under such exciting circumstances, "will you go home with me now—not to my office, but my dwelling—and remain there till we can conclude upon some convenient arrangement for you at our leisure?"

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 21h

For it was exceeding difficult to bear in mind all the time those strange peculiarities, privileges, and unheard of exemptions, forming the tacit stipulations on Bartleby’s part under which he remained in my office.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 22h

At the expiration of that period, I peeped behind the screen, and lo!

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 23h

I stood in the entry watching him a moment, while something from within me upbraided me.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He was more a man of preferences than assumptions.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At last I was made aware that all through the circle of my professional acquaintance, a whisper of wonder was running round, having reference to the strange creature I kept at my office.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Since he will not quit me, I must quit him.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nevertheless, my mind was not pacified; and full of a restless curiosity, at last I returned to the door.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One moment I thought it would prove a miserable failure, and Bartleby would be found all alive at my office as usual; the next moment it seemed certain that I should find his chair empty.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Half-past twelve o’clock came; Turkey began to glow in the face, overturn his inkstand, and become generally obstreperous; Nippers abated down into quietude and courtesy; Ginger Nut munched his noon apple; and Bartleby remained standing at his window in one of his profoundest dead-wall reveries.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

His face was leanly composed; his gray eye dimly calm.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For all your coaxing, he will not budge.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Upon asking him why he did not write, he said that he had decided upon doing no more writing.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It rather proceeds from a certain hopelessness of remedying excessive and organic ill. To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The third I sometimes carried in my own pocket.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I should have been quite delighted with his application, had he been cheerfully industrious.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There was a strange, inflamed, flurried, flighty recklessness of activity about him.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"So you weren’t acquainted with Monroe?"

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The bond of a common humanity now drew me irresistibly to gloom.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"You refer to Bartleby, I suppose."

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He would do nothing in the office; why should he stay there?

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This apprehension had not been without efficacy in determining me to summary measures.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was fumbling under the door mat for the key, which Bartleby was to have left there for me, when accidentally my knee knocked against a panel, producing a summoning sound, and in response a voice came to me from within—"Not yet; I am occupied."

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