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Tonight we'll be reading Bartleby the Scrivener, a story of Wall Street.

A short story by Herman Melville, serialized anonymously in two parts in 1853.

In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to do any task required of him.

Though no great success at the time of publication, Bardby the Scrivener is now among the mostness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Bartleby the Scribner, a story of Wall Street by Herman Melville. I am a rather elderly guy.

The nature of my avocations for the closing 30 years

has delivered me into extra than regular contact

with what might appear an exciting and somewhat singular set of guys,

of whom as yet nothing that I know of has ever been written.

I imply the regulation copyists or scriveners.

I actually have acknowledged very many of them

professionally and privately and if I thrilled

ought to relate divers histories at which excellent-natured gents may smile and sentimental souls would possibly weep.

But I waive the biographies of all other Scriveners for a few passages within the lifestyles

of Bartleby, who became a scrivener of the strangest

I ever noticed or heard of.

While of other regulation copies I might write the complete lifestyles of Bartleby nothing of that kind can be executed.

I accept as true with that no substances exist for a full and fine biography of this guy.

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