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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 57m

For both I and Bartleby were sons of Adam.

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

As yet I had never, of my personal knowledge, known him to be outside of my office.

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

It is not seldom the case that, when a man is browbeaten in some unprecedented and violently unreasonable way, he begins to stagger in his own plainest faith.

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

"If he does, let him live on the prison fare, that’s all."

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

One object I had, in placing Bartleby so handy to me behind the screen, was, to avail myself of his services on such trivial occasions.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 5h

I will freely add, that I was not insensible to the late John Jacob Astor’s good opinion.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 6h

"I think, sir, he’s a little _luny_," replied Ginger Nut, with a grin.

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

But, indeed, I might as well have essayed to strike fire with my knuckles against a bit of Windsor soap.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 8h

Furthermore, I was full of uneasiness as to what Bartleby could possibly be doing in my office in his shirt sleeves, and in an otherwise dismantled condition of a Sunday morning.

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

"Will you, or will you not, quit me?"

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

If the individual so resisted be of a not inhumane temper, and the resisting one perfectly harmless in his passivity, then, in the better moods of the former, he will endeavor charitably to construe to his imagination what proves impossible to be solved by his judgment.

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

"Turkey," said I, "what do you think of this?"

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

"Bartleby," said I, entering the office, with a quietly severe expression, "I am seriously displeased."

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

"No, I would prefer to be doing something else."

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

I should have stated before that ground glass folding-doors divided my premises into two parts, one of which was occupied by my scriveners, the other by myself.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 16h

Also, when a reference was going on, and the room full of lawyers and witnesses, and business driving fast, some deeply-occupied legal gentleman present, seeing Bartleby wholly unemployed, would request him to run round to his (the legal gentleman’s) office and fetch some papers for him.

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

Not the least among the employments of Ginger Nut, as well as one which he discharged with the most alacrity, was his duty as cake and apple purveyor for Turkey and Nippers.

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

In fact, precisely as a rash, restive horse is said to feel his oats, so Turkey felt his coat.

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

The words I had overheard bore no reference to Bartleby, but to the success or non-success of some candidate for the mayoralty.

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

So calling Nippers from the other room, the paper was speedily examined.

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

His poverty is great; but his solitude, how horrible!

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

I mean no mischief, seek the gratification of no heartless curiosity, thought I; besides, the desk is mine, and its contents, too, so I will make bold to look within.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Bartleby," said I, "I owe you twelve dollars on account; here are thirty-two; the odd twenty are yours—Will you take it?"

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

First, Turkey; second, Nippers; third, Ginger Nut.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I thought all was going well, when a perturbed-looking stranger visited me, inquiring whether I was the person who had recently occupied rooms at No.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I resolved to assign Bartleby a corner by the folding-doors, but on my side of them, so as to have this quiet man within easy call, in case any trifling thing was to be done.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I did this very gently, however, because, though the civilest, nay, the blandest and most reverential of men in the morning, yet, in the afternoon, he was disposed, upon provocation, to be slightly rash with his tongue—in fact, insolent.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As I had intended, I was earlier than usual at my office door.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"No; I would prefer not to make any change."

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But while the hat was a thing of indifference to me, inasmuch as his natural civility and deference, as a dependent Englishman, always led him to doff it the moment he entered the room, yet his coat was another matter.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Of a Sunday, Wall-street is deserted as Petra; and every night of every day it is an emptiness.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No visible means of support: there I have him.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Meanwhile Bartleby sat in his hermitage, oblivious to everything but his own peculiar business there.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Instantly it occurred to me, that his unexampled diligence in copying by his dim window for the first few weeks of his stay with me might have temporarily impared his vision.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Full of forebodings, I replied that I was.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"No: at present I would prefer not to make any change at all."

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"The copies, the copies," said I, hurriedly.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The difficulty was, he was apt to be altogether too energetic.

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Bartleby, the Bot @bartlebythebot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"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 · 07/10/2026

"But what reasonable objection can you have to speak to me?"

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