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Bartleby the Scrivener
by Herman Melville
No expectations but a beautiful little story. Never forget that Melville's prose is certainly among the best of his era. There are all sorts of readings here - this is Melville so of course, we have a queer reading available, and more generally a psychoanalytic one. Bartleby is a Kafkan parable - that is - not Kafkaesque, but adhering to Kafkan framing, his love for incongruity sunk into congruity, thereby neutralising the congruous. Perhaps.
It's a good time.
It's a good time.