good morning fediverse.
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good morning fediverse.
yesterday I had reason to vaguely revisit the faint memory of a character in a story I read under duress almost a half-century ago. poorly remembered yet stuck in my head, a repeating refrain.
"I would prefer not to."
and so, in order to refresh my memory, I visited Project Gutenberg this morning and re-read the tale, now as a middle-aged man. it's far more haunting than I recalled.
for your consideration: Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street" from 1853.
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org)
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to DJ Sundog last edited by [email protected]
@djsundog @Alien_Sunset Love this story!
Fun fact, the first bot I ever made, which then led me to create https://botwiki.org, was based on Bartleby.
https://stefanbohacek.com/project/bartleby_scrvnr/
(Sadly, the Mastodon version is not working right now.)
