I won’t lie, I read this because of a joke in Archer. Having read it, the joke is brilliant. I love little discoveries like that. Bartleby the Scrivener is a short story about a scrivener (copier of longhand legal documents) who one day upsets the entire order of his workplace when he is asked to do part of his job and responds “I’d prefer not to.” This escalates, with Bartleby preferring not to do more and more, until he is slowly driven out of his entire […]
Bartleby The Scrivener
Bartleby The Scrivener by Herman Melville



